(AP) A Connecticut prison guard who was fired in 2021, several years after posting what the state determined to be an anti-Muslim meme on Facebook, has been reinstated to his job.
An arbitrator ruled in February that Anthony Marlak’s termination was an excessive response by the state Department of Correction and reduced the punishment to a 25-day suspension. He also ruled that Marlak must be compensated for lost pay and benefits.
Marlak, who served as a correctional officer for 14 years, told the Associated Press on Thursday that he returned to his job at the Garner Correctional Institution in March.
The Connecticut chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the country’s largest Muslim advocacy organization, had called for Marlak’s firing two years ago.
