{"id":98064,"date":"2018-09-07T18:11:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T00:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/state-settles-lawsuit-over-sex-bias-with-prison-workers\/"},"modified":"2018-09-07T18:11:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T00:11:54","slug":"state-settles-lawsuit-over-sex-bias-with-prison-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/state-settles-lawsuit-over-sex-bias-with-prison-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"State settles lawsuit over sex bias with prison workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Albuquerque Journal reported Thursday that six female correctional officers filed a civil rights complaint in 2015 describing the state prison in Los Lunas where they worked as a \u201csexualized, violent environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiffs say male colleagues would expose themselves, shared graphic pictures and videos, made derogatory comments and inappropriately touched them.<\/p>\n<p>According to the lawsuit, the women say supervisors were aware of the situation but did not take appropriate action.<\/p>\n<p>The state Corrections Department has denied the allegations and said the settlement was reached to avoid a costly legal battle.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesmen for the state didn\u2019t respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albuquerque Journal reported Thursday that six female correctional officers filed a civil rights complaint in 2015 describing the state prison in Los Lunas where they worked as a \u201csexualized, violent environment.\u201d The plaintiffs say male colleagues would expose themselves, shared graphic pictures and videos, made derogatory comments and inappropriately touched them. According to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[202],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-98064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-briefs"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98064"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=98064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}