When I was in high school in the '70s, we discussed "Man's inhumanity to man".[1] Things have improved in the last few hundred years (and even in the last 40 years), but clearly we have a ways to go.
At least the guy in the article was able to get $35,000 in back wages. At the risk of bringing Godwin's law into the discussion at first post, this is a major improvement over WWII when prison guards gassed Gypsies and Jews during the week, then went to church on Sunday.