Class remains in prison vulgarity suit

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A federal judge refused to reconsider his decision to certify a class of female mental and medical health care workers who say they were forced to endure exposure to prisoners masturbating and other vulgarities while at work. All the class members worked in the same department at the Pontiac Correctional Center, held civilian jobs working directly with the prison’s “all-male predominantly maximum security population,” and had to traverse in close proximity to cellhouses and t...