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New York City Arrestee Awarded $5.02 Million in Strip Search
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1999, page 6
On May 6, 1999, a federal jury in Manhattan awarded $19,600 in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages to an arrestee who was strip searched in a New York City jail. In 1997 Debra Ciraolo, 43, an interpreter for the hearing impaired, was arrested after a domestic dispute ...
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