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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
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.
Filed under:
Strip Searches,
Visitor Searches,
Qualified Immunity,
Death Penalty/Death Row,
Death Row.
Location:
Illinois.
Between 1995 and 1997 people visiting death row prisoners in Illinois were …
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