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| Colorado pays prison whistleblower $280,000 |
| By canoncitydailyrecord.com- Kirk Mitchell |
| Published: 01/21/2016 |
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A former top statistician who filed a whistleblower complaint accusing Colorado prison officials of skewing figures about mentally ill and violent convicts will be paid more than $280,000 in a settlement. Maureen O'Keefe, the former director of Colorado Department of Corrections' Office of Planning and Analysis, filed a complaint that said the state sought to punish and silence her, including twice placing her on administrative leave. In State Personnel Board documents reviewed by The Denver Post, O'Keefe accused prisons director Rick Raemisch and his department of exaggerating the results of reforms he implemented following the 2013 murder of his predecessor, Tom Clements. The reforms were aimed at what Raemisch has said were systemic flaws revealed in the wake of the attack on Clements by a parolee. Raemisch had launched a national publicity campaign that cited the dangers of isolating prisoners in administrative segregation. Read More. |
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