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Court gives blessing to women-only prison jobs |
By theolympian.com- Jordan Schrader |
Published: 06/18/2015 |
Washington’s prison system didn’t illegally discriminate when it created female-only jobs at women’s prisons, a federal appeals court has ruled. The Department of Corrections created gender-specific positions in 2009 at a time when it was under fire over sexual abuse of female inmates. “The Department was well-justified in concluding that rampant abuse should not be an accepted part of prison life and taking steps to protect the welfare of inmates under its care,” a three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Friday in upholding a lower court’s ruling. Inmates had alleged male guards had assaulted, fondled and harassed them, traded contraband for sexual favors, and twice impregnated inmates. And the agency settled a lawsuit by prisoners at the Washington Corrections Center for Women in Purdy. Read More. |
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