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Sixth Circuit: Group Strip Searches and Delousing at Ohio Jail State Claim
Loaded on June 3, 2015
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2015, page 45
Filed under:
Strip Searches.
Location:
Ohio.
Sixth Circuit: Group Strip Searches and Delousing at Ohio Jail State Claim
by David Reutter
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has held that a proposed class-action complaint filed on behalf of pretrial detainees at the Cleveland House of Correction, which alleged it was unreasonable for the jail to 1) …
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