Thursday, March 15, 2012

Calif. prison guard's firing over suicide upheld

Calif. prison guard's firing over suicide upheld~~~ November 2006 encounter with guard Thomas Norton, the inmate was found hanging from a bedsheet tied to a bar in her cell at the California Institution for Women in Chino (San Bernardino County). Another guard untied the sheet and removed her, and she recovered without injury, the court said.
Norton, a correctional officer at the prison since 1997, denied telling the woman to hang herself, and also denied calling his fellow guard a "rat" and a "snitch" for reporting the incident.


Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/03/14/BAO91NKS1K.DTL#ixzz1pE2LYkam

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