February 19, 2021
The Michigan Department of Corrections agreed to pay out $750,000 to end a suit in which the federal government claimed the state violated sex discrimination law by instituting gender-based assignment policies for female correctional officers.
June 13, 2016
The Michigan Department of Corrections illegally discriminated against female correctional officers by implementing overly broad female-only job assignment policies and unnecessarily denying female officers' transfer requests, the federal government alleged Monday.