As a direct result of this action I have been unemployed for nearly four years. The state has used false and negative employment references against me in many of the applications I have made. My supervisor retaliated against me when my superintendent requested I report the supervisors actions. Subsequently the associate superintendent decided to hire a personal friend of his who did not qualify for the position. My coworkers and I were verbally and physically threatened when we protested this illegal hiring practice. We were told to keep quiet or we would be forced out of our jobs. My coworkers and I were forced to accept a paper trail of many false letters of reprimand. After the accidental discovery of an already completed termination letter in my personal file before the department of community corrections investigation, more than a year after their investigation this termination letter remained unchanged except for the date. I was eventually forced to make nearly a dozen office moves. My former supervisor conspired with an inmate to start the false allegations I was having sex with an inmate. I was eventually forced to represent myself at a termination hearing against an attorney general and five of their assistants. The department of corrections had a mentally ill inmate testify I had raped and sodimized him for two years of his incarceration. This inmate died last year from complications of the AIDS virus. Even though I had submitted my HIV-AIDS negative blood test and polygraph examinations at the hearing, these were discounted by the judge. A large amount of information that had not been made available to me despite several discovery motions, surfaced during this hearing. The State was allowed to introduce polygraph examination results and hearsay evidence. I was not allowed to introduce evidence such as a settlement offer from Department of Community Corrections, which included sealing my personnel file and allowing me to resign. Central, mental and health files were not available to me, nor was information regarding the history of the inmates involved conspiring to accuse others of similar allegations of misconduct. Much of this information came out in testimony, but the bulk was withheld from me as I prepared for this hearing. |