Articles by Karen Dillon

Loaded on Jan. 31, 2018 by Karen Dillon published in Prison Legal News February, 2018, page 1

Filed under: Staff-Staff Assault, Staff-Staff Harassment, Supervisor-Staff Harassment, Threats by Staff, Discrimination, Gender Discrimination -- Women, Racial Discrimination, Religious Discrimination, Guards/Staff. Location: Missouri.

by Karen Dillon, The Pitch

Each day, as she prepared herself to work another shift at the Missouri Department of Corrections prison, Lashonda Reid knew to expect one thing.

It would be bad.

Reid had been called a “n****r,” a “token n****r,” “sexual chocolate.” She had been complimented on her ...