Ruling on an issue of first impression, a New Jersey Superior Court judge has allowed claims lodged under the state Law Against Discrimination to move forward in a putative class suit alleging sexual abuse of inmates at New Jersey’s only prison for women.

Judge Kay Walcott-Henderson in Mercer County ruled on July 6 that prisons are a public accommodation and thus are governed by the LAD.

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