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| Changes in transport rules |
| By Union Leader |
| Published: 03/31/2008 |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE - The state will change how corrections officers transport and monitor female prisoners after a nearly $2 million settlement with 30 women inmates who accused a former prison [officer] of rape and sexual harassment. All accusations against former corrections sergeant Douglas Tower occurred when the women were assigned to the Shea Farm halfway house in Concord, according to attorney Chuck Douglas, who is one of five lawyers representing the women. Tower is currently serving a 20- to 40-year sentence after he was convicted last year of six counts of rape and sexual assault of an inmate under his control. Douglas said the $1.85 million settlement will pay the inmates from a low of $6,000 to a high of $228,000 for women who were subjected to multiple incidents of sexual intercourse. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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