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| Stateville prison guard reassigned after "outrageous" security stop |
| By abc7chicago.com- Chuck Goudie and Barbara Markoff |
| Published: 08/21/2015 |
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CREST HILL, Ill. (WLS) -- Stateville Correctional Center in suburban Will County has been called the world's toughest prison, housing 4,000 of the worst male criminals. Visitors must be "dressed appropriately" or they are not allowed in. Now there are questions about common sense, involving a veteran stenographer who had a double mastectomy but was called out by guards and then thrown out for not wearing a bra, despite dressing very conservatively for a recent deposition at the prison. "The female guard proceeded to search me and was feeling my back and was feeling it in a rubbing way, and she said to me, 'You're not wearing a bra?'" recalls Stephanie Battaglia. Battaglia had a double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery 10 years ago. She says she dressed very conservatively in July when she arrived for an official meeting with a Stateville administrator. Read More. |

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