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Utah Strip Search Suit Settled
Loaded on Jan. 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
January, 1999, page 11
On January 21, 1998, the Utah Department of Corrections settled a strip search lawsuit with prisoner David Hansen. Hansen had filed suit claiming his Fourth amendment rights were violated when he was handcuffed and subjected to a strip search where prison guards manipulated his testicles and buttocks. Hansen also claimed …
Filed under:
Sexual Assault,
Staff-Prisoner Assault,
Strip Searches,
Food,
Exercise,
Exposure to Cold.
Location:
Utah.
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