MONROE, Wash. (AP) ? An arbitrator said the Department of Corrections was wrong to fire three corrections officers and demote a sergeant for failings related to the death of Officer Jayme Biendl at the Monroe Correctional Complex.
The Daily Herald reported Tuesday that prison officials had accused the four of misconduct, dereliction of duty and of purposely misleading investigators.
In an arbitration ruling signed Sunday, the arbitrator ruled in favor of an appeal from the Teamsters union. He ordered the reinstatement of the three officers and the sergeant with back pay and benefits. The arbitrator says the four should have been reprimanded, not fired.
Biendl was strangled in January 2011 in the prison chapel.
Inmate Byron Scherf was convicted of aggravated murder in May and sentenced to death.
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