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Pubic Hair Search of Released Jail Detainee Unconstitutional

Loaded on Jan. 15, 2001 published in Prison Legal News January, 2001, page 23
Filed under: Gender Discrimination -- Women, Searches, Strip Searches, Arrestee Searches, Qualified Immunity. Location: Michigan.
A federal district court in Alabama held that a sheriff's policy of searching prisoners' pubic hair as they were released from jail was unconstitutional. The court also held that jail officials were entitled to qualified immunity from money damages for strip searching a detainee being placed in the jail.

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