A prison van enters the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility in March 2021. Read more YONG KIM / Staff Photographer

by Abraham Gutman Published May 27, 2025, 4:33 p.m. ET

The day after Philadelphia voters approved a ballot measure to increase oversight over the city’s jail system , a former deputy commissioner filed a lawsuit accusing the previous leader of the Philadelphia Department of Prisons of “sexual favoritism” and retaliation.

Terrell Bagby, who has worked for the department for 28 years, was demoted from his position as deputy commissioner overseeing restorative and transitional services in February 2024 because he testified against the department’s position as part of a sex-discrimination lawsuit, according to the complaint.

The suit, filed last week in Common

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