url=http://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2017/11/inmates-are-using-masturbation-as-a-weapon-female-guards-have-had-enough/]We have to go back to the days when women couldn't do certain jobs.[/url]
A pair of class-action lawsuits filed recently against the sheriff’s office in Cook County, Illinois, allege that the office has failed to protect female workers and female public defenders against frequent and egregious sexual harassment—by male inmates at the Cook County Jail in Chicago.
Inaction by Sheriff Thomas Dart has left the jail “an objectively abusive and hostile workplace for women,” but not for men, claims a lawsuit filed in federal court last Wednesday by five female guards. The second lawsuit, filed on Sunday by attorneys at the Cook County Public Defender’s Office who visit their clients in the jail, makes a similar claim. Dart’s neglect, both lawsuits say, amounts to sex-based employment discrimination under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Illinois Civil Rights Act and violates the women’s constitutional right to equal protection.
Inaction by Sheriff Thomas Dart has left the jail “an objectively abusive and hostile workplace for women,” but not for men, claims a lawsuit filed in federal court last Wednesday by five female guards. The second lawsuit, filed on Sunday by attorneys at the Cook County Public Defender’s Office who visit their clients in the jail, makes a similar claim. Dart’s neglect, both lawsuits say, amounts to sex-based employment discrimination under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Illinois Civil Rights Act and violates the women’s constitutional right to equal protection.
