Pennsylvania County, Warden Held In Contempt In Class Suit Over Inmate Housing

Mealey's (July 12, 2019, 4:02 PM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — A federal judge in Pennsylvania on July 11 held Berks County, Pa., and its warden in civil contempt of a May 20 order to provide a plan for allowing low-risk female inmates to have the same freedom of movement provided to low-risk male inmates; the memorandum was filed several days after a narrowed class was certified in the lawsuit filed by two female inmates, one former and one current, alleging differential treatment between the genders at the jail (Theresa Victory, et al. v. Berks County, et al., No. 18-5170, E.D. Pa., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 115635)....