Washington’s Corrections Department has agreed to pay $600,000 dollars to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by a former student intern.
Attorneys representing Dr. Tressa Grummer say when she worked at the Monroe Correctional Complex while completing her doctoral program, she was repeatedly sexually harassed by Dr. Robert Carsrud.
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Grummer says Carsrud would stare at her, tell her she would have more success counseling inmates if she wore shorter skirts and lower-cut tops, and told her he needed to spend more one-on-one time with her.
She initially filed a sexual harassment complaint, but the Department of Corrections failed to
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