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Harassment in Cell Searches Not Permitted

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Cell Searches, Money/Property, Prisoner Property. Location: Virginia.

The U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed and remanded the U.S. District Court of Virginia in a cell shakedown case involving destruction of a prisoner's personal property and legal material.

Russell T. Palmer, Jr., a prisoner at the Bland Correctional Center in Virginia sued prison guard Ted S. Hudson ...

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