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$5,400 Payout by Montana DOC Over Ex-Prisoner’s Claim of Religious, Gender Discrimination
Loaded on Aug. 1, 2020
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2020, page 33
Filed under:
Gender Discrimination -- Women,
Religious Discrimination,
Settlements.
Location:
Montana.
by David M. Reutter
The Montana Department of Corrections (MDOC) agreed to pay $5,400 to resolve a former prisoner’s claim that alleged religious discrimination and failed equal opportunities for women.
The November 7, 2019 Conciliation Agreement resolved complaints brought by prisoner May Simmons, who was held at …
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