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Salem, OR: (Feb-18-08) Russell Rice and Larry Lytle, two white former employees at the Department of Correction's Santiam Correctional Institution, brought a discrimination lawsuit against Marion County, alleging that Superintendent Frank Thompson, who is black, gave preferential treatment to other black employees. Both Rice and Lytle were managers at the facility before they were terminated in 2004. Rice was operations manager of the prison and Lytle was an inmate work supervisor. They alleged that the firings were without basis and were retaliatory for their complaining to other prison officials about what they said was Thompson's race-based treatment toward employees.
A settlement had been reached in the case and a Marion County jury awarded the two former employees a combined $1 million, resolving the lawsuit alleging racial discrimination and retribution for whistleblowing. Records show that Rice alleged that Thompson forced him to retire in March 2004, but continued as a temporary worker until fired by Thompson in April 2004. Lytle voluntarily retired in March 2004, but worked part-time until Thompson fired him that month. [KATU NEWS: MANAGER DISCRIMINATION]
Published on Feb-19-08
A settlement had been reached in the case and a Marion County jury awarded the two former employees a combined $1 million, resolving the lawsuit alleging racial discrimination and retribution for whistleblowing. Records show that Rice alleged that Thompson forced him to retire in March 2004, but continued as a temporary worker until fired by Thompson in April 2004. Lytle voluntarily retired in March 2004, but worked part-time until Thompson fired him that month. [
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