HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A prison warden who fought her termination for 10 years is getting her job back because of a ruling by the Hawaii Supreme Court.

Kulani Correctional Facility warden Ruth Forbes was fired after being accused of management misconduct, but now she is being restored with potentially more than a million dollars in back pay.

This will be the second time Forbes has won her job back, and her attorney, Ted Hong, said the 10 years it’s taken to fight her way back will be expensive for taxpayers.

“When we reach a conclusion like this, the amount of money that is owed to the individual, aside from her life that was ruined, but the amount of money is huge,” he said.

Forbes was an award-winning manager when she was picked to be warden of the Kulani minimum security prison

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