Moorhead v. Lane

ORDER

BAKER, Chief Judge.

I. BACKGROUND

This is a civil rights class action for declaratory and injunctive relief brought pursuant to the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1871, 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs are prisoners confined at Dwight Correctional Center (the only female correctional facility operated by the State of Illinois). The plaintiffs contend that there is a great discrepancy between the treatment, programs, and opportunities available to male and female prisoners, and that this discrepancy violates the Equal Protection Clause of the…