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BOP Pays $22,500 Settlement in Retaliation Claim

Loaded on Feb. 21, 2017

Filed under: Sexual Harassment, Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Staff-Staff Harassment, Retaliation, Retaliation against Staff. Location: Texas.

The federal Bureau of Prisons paid $22,500 to settle a lawsuit claiming retaliation. The suit was brought by James M. Hedge, an Administrative Assistant Warden at the Federal Correction Complex in Beaumont, Texas.

Hedge alleged that in 1997 he was subject to retaliation by Administrative Warden James Rich and Administrative ...

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