Repeated searches for drugs and inadequate cleanup showed 'deliberate indifference,' suit says
The plaintiffs allege they were publicly searched in front of officers, inmates several times a day
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Adding the B-SCAN body scanner to the screening process made it next to impossible for inmates to sneak drugs into the facility
The class-action lawsuit was filed in 2010 on behalf of former inmates
Keeping equipment secure, conducting random searches and minimizing inmate movement are some of the strategies to improve facility security
A question recently posted to Quora asks "why does the standard procedure of arrest for alleged felons involve a strip search/cavity search?" Tim Dees, a retired police officer, gave his response; ...
Lawsuit against Corrections Corporation of America was first filed two weeks ago in federal court in Nashville
A Kings County sheriff’s official says the incident never happened
Drugs were found inside her vagina
He assaulted staff after they tried to get him to spit out a bag of suspected crack cocaine
Allowing male officers to videotape strip searches of female inmates at a western Massachusetts jail is not only humiliating but unconstitutional, a federal judge has ruled
Creating a solid framework for your strip search policy will ensure that your facility can explain every time why a search was done and justify your actions
Here are a few recent examples of strip searches that fall apart under scrutiny; mark what they’ve done wrong so you don’t fall into the same traps
A woman who was forcibly stripped and left in a cell for seven hours by jail deputies will sue the sheriff and county responsible
LaSalle County will pay $355,000 in legal fees and settlement costs for a case that alleged officers violated civil rights of Dana Holmes
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