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An Old Story: District of Columbia Continues Overdetaining and Strip Searching Prisoners
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2007
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2007, page 33
A federal district court for the District of Columbia has, once again, certified a class action in a complaint that District of Columbia is over-detaining persons ordered released and strip searching them without individualized suspicion. The Court noted this is ?a case in which history insists on repeating itself.? PLN ...
Filed under:
Strip Searches,
Arrestee Searches,
Complaints,
Class Certification,
Sentencing,
Wrongful Imprisonment.
Location:
District of Columbia.
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