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| Conn. Officer Fired for Accepting Nazi Drawings |
| By Journal Inquirer |
| Published: 03/18/2003 |
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Former correction officer Glen Galbraith said recently he's bitter about a state arbitrator's ruling last month to uphold his firing after he accepted drawings of Nazi storm troopers from an inmate. 'I lost my insurance. I lost my job,' he said. 'Am I bitter? I'm very bitter.' The state Department of Correction fired Galbraith, 32, from his job as a correction officer at the Carl Robinson Correctional Institution in Enfield, Conn. on June 28, 2001. Three months earlier, Galbraith had accepted two drawings from an inmate and was spotted by supervisors taking those drawings out of the prison, the ruling states. The inmate gave Galbraith the drawings as part of a sting operation by prison supervisors, the ruling says, after another correction officer complained about seeing that same inmate draw a military tank with Nazi symbols, then give the drawing to Galbraith. The co-worker also saw Galbraith wearing a medallion with a Nazi SS symbol on his uniform, the ruling states. The SS, or schutzstaffel, were Adolf Hitler's special police forces whose members ranged from Gestapo agents to WWII soldiers to officers at concentration and death camps. Though Galbraith admits to wearing the medallion and said he did wrong by taking the storm trooper drawings, he said he feels his supervisors blew those incidents out of proportion because they wanted to get rid of him. A self-proclaimed history buff, Galbraith said his superiors shouldn't have read much into his wearing the medallion. 'I have all kinds of pins, medals, from all kinds of wars,' he said. 'They were just trying to label me as a gang member.' Correction Department Spokeswoman Karen Oien declined comment Thursday on the details of Galbraith's case. 'We'll just stick to the facts of the case,' she said. Galbraith said he recently moved from Springfield to Enfield and now does loss-prevention work for a Wal-Mart department store. He's also joined the Army National Guard, he said. |
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