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Pierce County, WA Jail Settles Jail Strip-Search Suit For $667,000
Loaded on June 15, 2008
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2008, page 28
Pierce County, Washington settled a class action suit challenging unconstitutional strip searches of specified pretrial detainees in its county jail for $200,000 in damages, $15,000 in administrative costs and $452,000 in attorney fees. In addition, the Superior Court of Pierce County held that Washington statutes RCW 10.79.120 and 10.79.130, as ...
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