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Sixth Circuit Terminates Glover v. Johnson
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2000, page 8
In 1977, two groups of female prisoners of the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) brought two separate §1983 civil complaints against the MDOC and various staff alleging Equal Protection and First Amendment violations with regard to educational and vocational programming (female prisoners sought parity with male prisoners on these issues) …
Filed under:
Gender Discrimination -- Women,
PLRA,
Injunctions (PLRA),
Education.
Location:
Michigan.
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