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Unemployment Compensation Denied to Guard Who Failed to Stop Prisoner Assault
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2009
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2009, page 44
Filed under:
Misconduct/Corruption,
Guard Misconduct,
Retaliation against Staff,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Employee Litigation.
Location:
Pennsylvania.
Unemployment Compensation Denied to Guard Who Failed to Stop Prisoner Assault
The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania has held that a guard who was fired for willful misconduct for failing to report the planned assault of a prisoner was not entitled to unemployment compensation. The Court reached the same conclusion after ...
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