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$2.16 Million Settlement in Dauphin Pennsylvania Jail Strip Search Lawsuit
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2009
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2009, page 21
A class action lawsuit alleging illegal strip searches occurred regularly at Pennsylvania’s Dauphin County Prison (DCP) has been settled for $2.16 million. The class claimed they were arrested on minor charges and strip searched without any particularized suspicion that they possessed weapons or other contraband.The lawsuit was filed after ...
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