Bowden v. Bayside State Prison

How courts have described this case

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• holding that it was arbitrary, capricious or unreasonable to reduce penalty from removal to six months suspension where a prison guard gambled with inmates for cigarettes
• holding that a prison guard playing cards with an inmate warranted bypassing progressive discipline
• finding removal warranted despite no prior major disciplinary record where SCO committed conduct unbecoming an employee by playing cards with inmates and paying gambling debts with cigarettes
• dismissing a correctional officer for undermining prison order by playing cards with inmates
• noting the great importance of maintaining order and discipline within a prison
• Correctional officers must maintain order and discipline to safely run a prison or jail.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).