Consumer Law
Trial Begins Over a Discriminatory Policy at a Women’s Prison
Trial began Monday in a long-running lawsuit that accuses the Michigan prison system of illegally discriminating against male officers at the state’s only prison for women.
Millions of dollars in overtime and other compensation are at stake in the class-action case in Washtenaw County.
Tom Nowacki sued in 2011, claiming he was illegally denied certain jobs at the Huron Valley prison in response to sexual assaults by others many years earlier.
