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Women inmates' suit dismissed
By The Buffalo News
Published: 01/02/2008

NEW YORK - A federal judge has dismissed a class-action lawsuit contending that New York State has not done enough to stop guards from sexually abusing prisoners at Albion Correctional Facility and other all women prisons.

The lawsuit, filed in 2003, was dismissed in a 23-page ruling obtained by The Buffalo News. Women prisoners contended in the lawsuit that the state Department of Correctional Services does little to prevent corrections officers from rape, sexual molestation and voyeurism aimed at female prisoners in the state system. Read more.

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