(NY Post) A female corrections officer says she was forced to defy her Muslim beliefs when a lone male supervisor demanded she remove her hijab, a new $8 million lawsuit charges.
Maureen Billings, a corrections officer at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Westchester County, claims her bosses retaliated against her after the 2017 incident by taking her off payroll for seven months, according to the lawsuit filed in federal court in White Plains.
Billings claims her captain, Paul Artuz, made her take off her hijab during a meeting at the women’s prison to demonstrate that it could be quickly removed without it choking her, the suit reads.
