Donna Payant

Death by Force

On May 15, 1981, Donna Payant, a 31-year-old white female corrections officer, was murdered while on duty at Green Haven Correctional Facility in Stormville, New York. She had recently transferred from Clinton Correctional Facility and had only been working at Green Haven for about a month. Donna Payant was the first female corrections officer in New York State to be killed in the line of duty. A mother of three, she came from a family with deep ties to the corrections system—her husband was a ...Read More

1981 murder at Green Haven followed prison disfunction

Corrections Officer Donna A. Payant

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