Prison Shopping

SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit vacated a ruling in favor of prison officials in a dispute brought by a California prisoner who claims they discriminated against him based on his gender by not allowing him to purchase certain prison vendor products, finding “gender-based distinctions must be rooted in reasoned analysis” instead of “often inaccurate assumptions about gender.”

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