WELLS v. DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS, LA. ST. PENITENTIARY

Nos. 14691-14694.

439 So.2d 470 (1983)

Carolyn WELLS v. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, LOUISIANA STATE PENITENTIARY. Frances FOSTER v. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, LOUISIANA STATE PENITENTIARY. Shirley THOMPSON v. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, LOUISIANA STATE PENITENTIARY. Shirley THOMPSON v. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, LOUISIANA STATE PENITENTIARY.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Writ Denied December 9, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Rarick, Jesse L. Means, Jr., St. Francisville, for appellants.

Betty Jean G. Ray, La. Dept. of Justice, Baton Rouge, for appellee.

Laura D. Holmes, Civil Service Legal Counsel, Dept. of State Civ. Service, Baton Rouge, for George Hamner Director, Dept. of State Civ. Service.

Before COVINGTON, COLE and SAVOIE, JJ.


COLE, Judge.

These cases concern three employees of the commissary at Louisiana State Penitentiary 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...

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