July 29, 2013
Connecticut's Department of Correction has reached a $3 million settlement with a class of women who said the fitness test for would-be correction officers discriminated against female applicants and violated the Civil Rights Act, according to a Connecticut federal judge's Friday order.
July 14, 2011
The Connecticut Department of Correction on Thursday moved to decertify a class of female job applicants, citing the recent decision in Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., shortly after a judge decided the agency's physical fitness test for correctional officers discriminated against women.
May 09, 2011
A Connecticut federal judge found on Thursday in a class action that the Connecticut Department of Correction's physical fitness test for correctional officer jobs discriminated against women applicants.