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$6.2 Million Settlement Reached in D.C. Jail Strip Search, Overdetention Suit

Loaded on July 7, 2015 by Derek Gilna published in Prison Legal News July, 2015, page 32
Filed under: Strip Searches, Arrestee Searches, Body Cavity Searches. Location: District of Columbia.

$6.2 Million Settlement Reached in D.C. Jail Strip Search, Overdetention Suit

by Derek Gilna

An eight-year-old lawsuit alleging illegal overdetention and strip searches of detainees at the District of Columbia Jail concluded with a $6.2 million settlement. The class-action suit had accused the jail of wrongfully strip-searching prisoners who should ...

 

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