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Guard Sues Over Discrimination Order
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1995, page 14
This case involves a black California prison guard, Ali Moyo, who sued his superiors in the California Department of Corrections (CDC) after they fired him for protesting against and refusing to cooperate with the defendants practice of allowing white prisoners, but not black prisoners, to shower after their work shifts. ...
Filed under:
Racial Discrimination,
Prison Labor,
Federal Statutory Law,
1964 Civil Rights Act,
Employee Litigation.
Location:
California.
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