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Genital Groping States Claim
Loaded on April 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
April, 1996, page 12
A federal district court in New York held that a prisoner's allegations of sexual harassment state a claim for a violation of the eighth amendment. Julio Hunt, a New York state prisoner, filed suit claiming that he had his penis and testicles squeezed and rubbed by a guard during pat ...
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Sexual Harassment,
Staff-Prisoner Harassment,
Pat Searches,
Eighth Amendment.
Location:
New York.
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