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Illegal Strip Searches Cost MTC, New Mexico County $8.5 Million
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2007
by Michael Rigby
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2007, page 34
Management and Training Corporation (MTC) and Santa Fe County, New Mexico, will pay $8.5 million to settle with an estimated 13,000 former prisoners who were unconstitutionally strip searched at the Santa. Fe County Detention Facility between January 2002 and June 2006. The Utah-based MTC, which operated the jail from October …
Filed under:
Private Prisons,
Management and Training Corporation,
Strip Searches,
Arrestee Searches,
Municipal Liability.
Location:
New Mexico.
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