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MA Sheriff sues guards for running a racist and sexist union website

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Ending era of racism By Adrian Walker Globe Columnist / December 13, 2010 Frank G. Cousins Jr. freely admits that he has a hard time talking about the entrenched problems involving race and gender in his department. That isn?t an easy admission for any sheriff. But then again, Cousins might be the only law enforcement boss to file a complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination against a group of his own subordinates. For creating a workplace that was hostile ? toward him. The Essex County sheriff won an important measure of vindication a few days ago, when a Superior Court judge ruled in his favor against two employees Cousins had fired for their role in running an often racist and sexist union website. The ruling, by Judge David A...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on December 13, 2010 (boomark / email).