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CSC May Be Liable For Retention of Sexually Abusive Employee
Loaded on June 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2005, page 24
by Matthew T.Clarke
Filed under:
Work Release,
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Esmor/CSC,
Staffing,
Immunity/Liability,
Contractor Liability.
Location:
New York.
A federal district court in New York has held that Correctional Services Corporation (CSC) may be liable for retaining an employee at a CSC-run halfway house after his sexual abuse of female prisoners was reported to another CSC employee.
Yvette Adorno and Stephanie Womble, federal prisoners formerly ...
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