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Illinois Settles Visitor Strip Search Suit for $237,000

Loaded on Aug. 15, 2003 published in Prison Legal News August, 2003, page 36
Filed under: Strip Searches, Visitor Searches, Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Row. Location: Illinois.
by Matthew T. Clarke


In 2001, the Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) has settled a lawsuit by visitors who claimed strip searches conducted during their visit to the Pontiac Correctional Center (PCC) were unconstitutional.


In 1997, Marylin Tompkins and Jess Burgess filed suit in federal district court in Peoria, IL, ...

 

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