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| Man Fired For Giving Inmates Socks May Be Rehired |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 08/18/2003 |
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Indiana officials want to rehire a prison groundskeeper fired for giving new socks to several inmates to replace their ragged prison-issued socks. Tom Adams was fired in December for giving socks to several inmates on his work crew. Officials have contacted the Vincennes man about clearing the blemish from his personnel record and giving him a new job with the Indiana Department of Transportation. In exchange, Adams would have to halt his legal effort to win back the $23,888-a-year job he had at the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility in southern Indiana. 'They told him about a couple positions, but no position was offered,' said Mark Palmer, a former state lawmaker turned lobbyist who is representing Adams, his brother-in-law. Talks intensified recently after a brief hearing before the State Employees' Appeals Commission. Tim Rider, the commission's chief administrative law judge, set another hearing for Dec. 17. But he urged both parties to settle the case. 'Nobody wants to have this hearing around Christmas, do they?' Rider asked. 'Tom wants to be back to work by then.' Prison officials would not object to a settlement negotiated by the State Personnel Department that would give Adams a job with another state agency, the department's lawyer, Joel Lyttle, told Ryder. Adams just wants to make sure his name is cleared -- and that he gets a job he likes. He would prefer his old job. Since losing his job, Adams has been driving trucks part time. He started with the Department of Correction as a corrections officer in November 1995. Adams, 52, was fired for buying two bags of white tube socks at Wal-Mart in May 2002 and giving them to a handful of minimum-security prisoners. He said he had tried in vain to get prison officials to replace the inmates' raggedy, prison-issued socks. Those socks exposed cuts, gashes and blisters and made it tough for the inmates to mow, trim and weed the 217-acre Carlisle prison grounds, Adams said. Prison officials said they fired Adams because he had violated prison rules -- and a state law -- that forbid giving anything to inmates without permission. They say trafficking can lead to blackmail, and blackmail can lead to prison disturbances. |
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