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| Federal court strikes down state prisons work rule |
| By empirestatenews.net |
| Published: 10/25/2013 |
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A US District Court judge shot down a state Department of Correctional Services’ rule that prohibits employees from associating with current or former inmates and parolees. The lawsuit that promoted the decision was filed by Goshen attorney Michael Sussman on behalf of an Orange County woman, a corrections officer who sought and was denied permission to allow her ex-husband to live with her when he was released from prison. The woman, Joann Corso, was also denied permission to associate with her daughter’s then-boyfriend, a parolee. Federal Judge Cathy Seibel ruled on Wednesday that the state prisons’ rule is unconstitutionally overbroad. Sussman believes the court ruling will have widespread ramifications. “I would think it would hopefully set a national precedent that is solid so people who are, in fact, incarcerated can more easily after their incarceration reintegrate into communities and not have this fear that if they meet someone who works somehow in a correction department they can’t associate with that person and we know, unfortunately there are a lot of people who work for corrections – 94,000 in the state,” Sussman said. Read More. |
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