Department of Corrections v. Farmer

LARRY G. SMITH, Judge.

In this consolidated appeal, the Department of Corrections attacks five orders of the Career Service Commission in which the Commission determined that appellees’ dismissals should be reduced to suspensions. We reverse.

Appellees, former employees at Sumter Correctional Institution, were dismissed because of their involvement in a “special counselling session” of ten prison inmates on February 4, 1982. The “special counsel-ling session” involved kicking and slapping the inmates, verbal abuse and the giving of close hair cuts to each of the inmates. Because the incident…