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2019

Guard accused of harassing inmate's girlfriend still has job

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A New York correctional officer accused of sexually harassing an inmate’s girlfriend is still on the job, even after the agency sought to fire him for making crude comments to the woman, brushing up against her and sending her unwanted emails.

The state prison system concluded that correctional officer Peter Welkley's attempts to hit on the woman caused her emotional distress and endangered the security of the Orleans Correctional Facility in western New York.

An investigation also found that a group of corrections officers beat the inmate, George Wishart, in March 2016 — days after he complained about the emails, according to a final investigative report released in court documents last month from the prison agency’s Office of Special Investigations.

Wishart, who was serving a sentence for robbery, has since been released from prison. He sued the state in March, saying his injuries required two surgeries, one to repair a rotator cuff and stabilize a joint and a second to remove surgical hardware.

Investigators did not conclude the beating was directly tied to Wishart's complaints about the correction officer's behavior, but he argued in his lawsuit that it was obvious retaliation.

Wishart says he was kicked, punched in the face, struck in the spine and kneed in the groin. He said one correctional officer told him: “You want to rat on my partner."

Welkley, who was not present for the assault, remains a correctional officer at Orleans and makes $75,563 a year, according to New York’s prison department.

A lawyer who represented him in an investigative proceeding declined to comment. Attempts to reach Welkley through a phone number associated with his name were not successful. A spokesperson for the office of New York Attorney General...




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