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Ban On Male Guards In Michigan Women's Prisons Upheld

Loaded on Sept. 15, 2005 by Michael Rigby published in Prison Legal News September, 2005, page 34
Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Gender Discrimination -- Men, Guards/Staff, Employee Litigation. Location: Michigan.
The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a Michigan Department of Corrections policy prohibiting male guards from holding certain positions in the state's female prisons did not violate Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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