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| Whistleblower audit clears Corrections official |
| By thenewstribune.com- Jordan Schrader |
| Published: 04/15/2015 |
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A state official didn’t commit “gross mismanagement” by reporting that a program was improving the behavior of prison inmates, even though the report was at odds with what independent researchers found, according to a state whistleblower audit released Monday. Department of Corrections Assistant Secretary Amy Seidlitz told auditors that she didn’t yet have final results from a Washington State University study of a behavior- modification program being tested at Coyote Ridge and Airway Heights corrections centers when she prepared a report for the Legislature on the program. Instead, she compared inmates going through the program to inmates in neighboring cell blocks, finding 75 percent fewer violent infractions for the program’s subjects. Another Corrections employee told auditors she had shared preliminary WSU data with Seidlitz at the time she was compiling the report for the Legislature. Those results were based on statistical comparisons. Read More. |
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