Wells v. Department of Corrections, Louisiana State Penitentiary

COLE, Judge.

These cases concern three employees of the commissary at Louisiana State Peniten*471tiary at Angola who were terminated from their positions due to allegations they had confessed to taking cigarettes from the commissary without paying for them.1 The dismissals took place in May of 1979 and a lengthy procedural history followed. The employees appealed their dismissals, claiming they had taken only “complimentary” cigarettes from the commissary. A hearing was held before the Civil Service Referee in March of 1980 and an opinion was rendered by the Commission in March of 1981. The gist…