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| Ethics inquiries trail DOC leader |
| By theolympian.com - JORDAN SCHRADER |
| Published: 06/29/2011 |
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The state Department of Corrections says it will finish its ethics investigation of an administrator this week, but it already has looked into similar allegations and found no cause for alarm. Belinda Stewart is being investigated after complaints alleging she ran nonprofits out of DOC headquarters. Stewart, who makes $102,000 as communications director, didn’t return a reporter’s phone calls. A report this winter concluded she was on the clock when she attended conferences of the nonprofit she runs, the National Association of Women in Criminal Justice, and when she and the group provided free training to corrections staff members. That activity was OK because it benefited the agency, according to the report obtained by The News Tribune. Stewart has faced previous investigations for mixing work and private life – and she survived. A state auditor’s report from 2005, when Stewart led the women’s prison near Purdy, found she used state money to fly her sister to Washington state and paid her $3,000 to give motivational speeches to inmates. Then-Secretary Harold Clarke said it created “the perception of unethical behavior.” He wrote her a letter of reprimand – not just for that episode, but for disobeying orders not to fill two other jobs and not to sell Avon products to staff members at the Washington Corrections Center for Women. Read More. |
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