Monroe prison guards to be reinstated and receive back pay
After the death of a guard in the Monroe Correctional Complex chapel two years ago, three officers were fired from their positions and a sergeant was demoted. However, an arbitrator has ruled that the Washington Department of Corrections went about the situation incorrectly, accusing the guards of "misconduct, dereliction of duty and of purposely misleading investigators," according to Komo News. The prison guards are being reinstated and are will receive back pay for being wrongly fired.
While the event to the firing and demotion of four employees, they are being asked to come back to work and will paid for what would have been their time and attendance over the past two years. Though three of the officers should have been reprimanded, the arbitrator said, they were wrongly treated and should never have been fired, and the fourth should not have been reprimanded or demoted.
Whether the employees take their jobs back is up to them, but they will receive back pay and benefits no matter what course of action they decide to take.
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