MATTER OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY CORRECTION OFFICERS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION, INC. v. COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER


287 A.D.2d 573 (2001)

731 N.Y.S.2d 484

In the Matter of WESTCHESTER COUNTY CORRECTION OFFICERS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION, INC., et al., Appellants, v. COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER et al., Respondents.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

Decided October 15, 2001.


Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

In the wake of several well-publicized acts of sexual misconduct perpetrated by male corrections officers upon female inmates, in or about February 2000 the respondents instituted a new policy, inter alia, replacing male corrections officers in the housing areas of prison facilities for female inmates with female corrections officers. The petitioners moved to hold the respondents in contempt, alleging that the...

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