Legal Opinion
VICTORY v. BERKS COUNTY
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided April 7, 2020No. 5:18-cv-05170Unknown
1Opinion
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA THERESA VICTORY, et al. : CIVIL ACTION : v. : NO. 18-5170 : BERKS COUNTY, et al. : MEMORANDUM KEARNEY, J. April 7, 2020 For several years and until the business day before our November 12-15, 2019 trial, Berks County vigorously defended its historical policy of not providing substantially equivalent treatment regarding freedom of mobility, access to privileges, and visitation to female Trusty inmates housed in its jail compared to male Trusty inmates housed in a nearby Community Reentry Center. As we found on October…
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