WASHINGTON TWP, Mich- – A 16th Circuit Court in Macomb County awarded Darin Dashing over $1.2 million on Tuesday, in a situation versus the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC).  

Hurrying, a correctional officer at the Macomb Jail, responded to a prisoner attacking people today. He went around to support, as it is his position to do so, but finished up staying attacked by the violent prisoner who also experienced a record of psychotic episodes. 

This was an attack that occurred in 2011 and left Speeding with a fractured leg and ankle that was so poorly damaged, that it demanded four surgeries, a metal rod put into his leg, and 7 screws. No other officers were wounded all through this assault.

In accordance to Rushing’s attorney Jon Marko, Hurrying developed critical put up-traumatic anxiety condition soon after the assault. On top of that, the medical doctors told him he would be crippled. He used the subsequent year in a wheelchair but went again to perform a 12 months afterwards. 

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Marko, who is a civil legal rights legal professional, reported it was a just verdict, and that Judge Edward Servitto recognized the heinous discrimination Rushing confronted by what he felt was a corrupt and morally bankrupt corporation.

According to Marko, when Hurrying went back to operate, he advised his boss he would do whatever get the job done he needed to do, with the a person ask for of becoming retained absent from the prisoner who attacked him. That manager advised him it would not be a trouble. That lasted for two decades.

“And in 2015, a new manager arrived in and claimed, ‘I never care about your publish-traumatic tension dysfunction, I you should not treatment about your incapacity, you might be likely to have to go all-around that prisoner,’ and he had a mental breakdown, and they disciplined him for not likely all over that prisoner declaring he violated an get, and they begun harassing him at do the job, placing him up, creating exciting of his incapacity, and just discriminating towards him,” described Marko. 

In accordance to Marko, this prisoner experienced around 200 assaults on prison personnel and had been criminally convicted for assaulting at minimum 8 of them. Moreover, some team members had been also given restraining orders versus him, even however he says Rushing experienced the most significant accidents, he thinks it was all just to ‘mess with him.’

“I believe that PTSD is not very understood. They applied it to mock him, they would connect with him a faker, you know since it can be a psychological point. You can see a metallic rod, and you can see a broken leg and ankle, you can’t see PTSD. And I just imagine they did not treat this medical mental wellness problem the way that it need to have been. It is really horrible what they did to this male.”

Marko feels that Dashing was targeted by MDOC management, and that his occupation was ruined for inquiring to be held away from the prisoner who attacked him. Dashing nevertheless is effective at the Macomb Prison but has been wanting for other perform, even right after successful the lawsuit. Although according to Marko, it hasn’t been heading extremely nicely mainly because each and every time the new employer calls his latest employer, they are given detrimental data that makes them not want to employ Hurrying. 

“They lied, they manufactured things up to avert him from receiving one more occupation,” said Marko. 

For the lawsuit winnings, and the tricky occupation atmosphere, Marko says that Dashing still has not sorted all of that out yet.