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D.C. Settles Gender- and Race-Based Work Discrimination Suit for $140,000

Loaded on May 15, 2011

Filed under: Gender Discrimination -- Women, Racial Discrimination, Guards/Staff, Employee Litigation. Location: District of Columbia.

On February 7, 2007, the District of Columbia agreed to pay $140,000 to a former Department of Corrections (DOC) employee who alleged that she was discriminated against because of her sex.

Brenda Makins was terminated from her job at Lorton Reformatory after she refused to participate in a conspiracy to ...

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