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$150,000 Settlement in Juvenile’s Jail Tour Strip Search Suit

Loaded on May 15, 2011

Filed under: Guard Misconduct, Searches, Strip Searches. Location: District of Columbia.

The District of Columbia on August 15, 2003, entered into a $150,000 consent judgment in order to settle a lawsuit by a teenager who was strip searched by guards during a tour of the D.C. jail.

On May 17th, 2001, Joseph Bennett took a field trip to the D.C. Jail. ...

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