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No Qualified Immunity for Illinois Visitor Strip Searches

Loaded on April 15, 2001 published in Prison Legal News April, 2001, page 21
Filed under: Strip Searches, Visitor Searches, Qualified Immunity, Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Row. Location: Illinois.
The court of appeals for the Seventh circuit held that Illinois prison officials were not entitled to qualified immunity from money damages for strip-searching prison visitors in the absence of any individualized suspicion that they were carrying contraband.

Between 1995 and 1997 people visiting death row prisoners in Illinois were ...

 

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