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Contact Visits/Presence at Shakedown Not Required

Pretrial detainees at the Los Angeles County Central Jail filed a suit in
federal district court under 42 U.S.C. § 1983.

It alleged that the jail's policy of forbidding contacting visits and
randomly shaking down cells in the detainees' absence violated the Due
Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The ...

 

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