Two and a half years after filing a racial discrimination lawsuit against the Michigan Department of Corrections, Lapeer County probation officer Lisa Griffey and her husband, Cedric Griffey, a deputy warden, were awarded an $11.3 million settlement on Monday.
According to WXYZ, the trial — which spanned the course of six weeks, included 10 hours of deliberations, and featured testimony from 41 witnesses — came to a close on Monday when an all-white jury awarded the Griffeys a multimillion-dollar settlement after Lisa endured years of racial harassment.…