A workers’ compensation judge awarded benefits to a Philadelphia corrections officer for post-traumatic stress disorder he sustained when he witnessed the fatal shooting of an inmate who had just been released from the prison.

In granting Dion Jones’ claim petition, Workers’ Compensation Judge Lawrence Beck said that seeing a person shot and killed should not be considered a normal part of a job, even in a line of work that is often violent. He determined that not only was the incident abnormal, but also that the prison presented almost no evidence in the dispute as to what constituted normal levels of violence in a prison environment.

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