ABSTRACT
Contemporary non-discrimination jurisprudence has increasingly embraced issues such as de facto discriminatory impact, or affirmative action, or special accommodation. This chapter discusses a broad concept of "treatment," which can account for a wide variety of claims. Dianne Rawlinson was a 22-year old woman who had completed a major course of university study in correctional psychology. She submitted an application for employment as a prison guard to the Board of Corrections of the State of Alabama. The prisons for which the positions had been advertised were all-male, maximum-security penitentiaries. The economy of symbolic notation lies in its ability to display relationships among its components. The State authorities defended the restrictions on women employees, noting that inmates' living quarters were mostly dormitories, with communal showers and toilets. Two of the facilities conducted outside employment schemes requiring routine strip searches of inmates upon re-entry.
