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IBCO Officer’s 20-Day Suspension Reversed
November 18, 2008
The IBCO successfully reversed an officer’s 20-day suspension for alleged retaliation against an inmate after the union proved the report at the center of the allegations didn’t exist.
In October 2004, an inmate at the Pondville Correctional Institute in Norfolk, Massachusetts was discovered out of place in the warehouse section of the facility. In front of about 20 other inmates, he refused repeated orders to return to his block. Correctional Program Officer II Donald Stewart, an 18-year veteran in the Mass. Department of Correction, was functioning as shift commander during the incident. Pondville was short-staffed that day, with only three officers for nearly 200 inmates. Concerned that the situation might become explosive, Stewart removed the inmate from the warehouse to a holding cell and requested permission to move him to maximum security. The director of security, however, denied Stewart’s request. Read More
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