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Sexual Assault During Search Illegal
Loaded on May 15, 1996
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1996, page 13
The court of appeals for the eighth circuit held that a guard who sexually harasses and assaults a prisoner during a strip search violates the fourth amendment. The court rejected the guard's defense that he was not a "state actor" for § 1983 purposes because he was acting to satisfy …
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Sexual Harassment,
Staff-Prisoner Harassment,
Strip Searches,
Strip Cells.
Location:
Missouri.
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