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Five Black correctional officers are accusing their white colleagues of running a race-based "gang" at a Hagerstown.

Five Black correctional officers are accusing their white colleagues of running a race-based "gang" at a Hagerstown, Maryland prison.

Five Black correctional officers are accusing their white colleagues of running a race-based "gang" at a Hagerstown, Maryland prison.

A group of five Black correctional officers at a Hagerstown, Maryland, prison says white officers are controlling the facility with a race-based “gang.”

The lawsuit says “40 West” members subjected Black colleagues and other employees of color at Maryland Correctional Training Center to […] The post Black correctional officers file racial discrimination suit citing ‘gang’ of white peers, RICO activity appeared first on TheGrio.

About 25 white prison guards are suspected of being members of the ‘40 West Gang’ with officers of color saying they were relentlessly subjected to racism that went unchecked.

GettyA lawsuit filed against a Maryland correctional facility has been transferred to federal court after the case was determined to include alleged hate crimes towards correctional officers of color and those who may have immigrated to the United States.The complaint against the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services (DPSCS) was initially filed in the Baltimore City Circuit Court on July 21, the plaintiffs’ attorney, Thomas Eiler, told The Daily Beast Friday.However, the c...