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Management & Training Corp. Struggles to Maintain Market Share by Gary Hunter For-profit private prison operator Management & Training Corporation (MTC) has recently lost lucrative contracts to run prisons in the United States and Canada. While the private prison industry is dominated by industry giants Corrections Corporation of America, Geo …
An Old Story: District of Columbia Continues Overdetaining and Strip Searching Prisoners by A federal district court for the District of Columbia has, once again, certified a class action in a complaint that District of Columbia is over-detaining persons ordered released and strip searching them without individualized suspicion. The Court …
Seminole County Jail Settles Strip Search Suits; Judge Removed From Bench by A settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit involving persons arrested in open court and illegally strip searched upon arrival at Florida?s Seminole County Jail. The suit was filed after the plaintiffs were arrested for failure …
Article • July 15, 2007 • from PLN July, 2007
$2 Million Settlement in Montgomery County, NY Strip Search Suit by On September 22, 2006, a federal judge entered an order approving the preliminary settlement of a suit against Montgomery County, New York, over its county jail strip search policy, for $2 million. This is a class-action civil rights lawsuit …
Article • June 15, 2007 • from PLN June, 2007
$2.5 Million Settlement in Schenectady County Strip Search Suit by On July 31, 2006, Schenectady County, New York, agreed to settle a suit over its county jail strip search policy for $2.5 million. This is a class-action civil rights lawsuit brought in federal district court pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § …
Article • May 15, 2007
Attorney Fees Awarded Despite Lack of Damages in Minnesota Jail Strip Search Suit by The U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota awarded attorney fees to a jail detainee even though a jury found the plaintiff had sustained no damages. Robert Swart was arrested by the Scott County [Minnesota] …
Article • May 15, 2007
Escaped Prisoner Has Limited Expectation of Privacy by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that an escaped prisoner is considered to be in constructive custody and therefore has a limited expectation of privacy. Roy, an escaped prisoner, was detained by Rocky Hill., Connecticut police on suspicion …
Article • May 15, 2007
Second Circuit: Lack of Standing Invalidates Strip Search Ban by On January 20, 2004, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals held that a federal district court's order enjoining a New York county jail from performing unconstitutional strip searches was erroneous because the plaintiff lacked standing. In July 1995, attorney …
Article • May 15, 2007
Plaintiffs' Summary Judgment Motion Denied In Strip Search Case by The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York held in a § 1983 action challenging a city's strip search policy that the city's claims were not collaterally estopped by state law, it's strip search policy was …
Article • May 15, 2007
DC Detainees Strip Searched After Receiving Release Orders State Claim by The United States District Court for the District of Columbia (D.C.) held that plaintiffs, prisoners suing the D.C. Jail for performing strip searches on them when returning to the jail after receiving their release orders, had stated a valid …
Article • May 15, 2007
Passing Through Metal Detector Partly Disrobed Not "Strip Search" by Passing Through Metal Detector Partly Disrobed Not "Strip Search" The U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, affirming the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, held that a state prison guard's requirement that an eight-year-old female visitor pass …
Illegal Search Precludes Policeman's Qualified Immunity; Affirms Plaintiff's Summary Judgment by The U.S. Southern District Court of New York determined that a police Sergeant was not entitled to qualified immunity for an unreasonable strip search. Nicole Sarnicola was arrested for suspicion of dealing drugs and was taken to the Tarrytown …
Article • May 15, 2007
$35,000 Paid in WA Jail Illegal Strip Search by In November 1999 a 15 year-old girl was arrested in Okanogon County, Washington, for failing to appear at a truancy hearing, a civil matter. The juvenile was strip-searched by a guard at the jail. The search was conducted in a room …
Article • May 15, 2007
New York District Court Grants Partial Summary Judgment to Sheriff by The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York granted partial summary judgment to a county sheriff who had a blanket policy of strip-searching all arrestees. Jaime Murcia was arrested on a federal felony warrant for …
South Dakota Juvenile Strip Searches Enjoined by Former juvenile detainees challenged the policy of strip-searching all juveniles admitted to the detention center regardless of the nature of their charges or the existence of reasonable suspicion. The policy is unconstitutional. An expert's conclusions that the policies and procedures were "neither unconstitutional …
Article • May 15, 2007
New York Jail Strip Search Upheld by The plaintiff was arrested on a civil contempt warrant and was strip-searched in a holding cell at the courthouse upon arrest; upon intake at the county jail; and upon admission to the jail's SHU, where he was taken after being found with contraband, …
Article • May 15, 2007
Iowa Jail Blanket Strip Search Policy Unconstitutional by An Iowa federal district court held that strip searches of temporary pre- arraignment detainees charged with minor offenses not normally associated with weapons or contraband are permissible under the Fourth Amendment only if there is a basis for reasonable suspicion that the …
Article • May 15, 2007
Georgia Jury Awards $15,000 for Illegal Strip Search by Marilyn Snyder was pulled over in Georgia's Habersham County for suspected driving while under the influence. After she failed a roadside breath test, she was taken to the county jail where she was strip- searched. Thereafter, Snyder was given an Intoxilizer …
Article • May 15, 2007
D.C. Female Arrestees File Tort Claims Over Illegal Strip Searches by The U.S. District Court, District of Columbia, denied in part and granted in part a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed by female arrestees against the United States Marshals Service (defendants), for allegedly conducting illegal strip searches on them. …
Article • May 15, 2007
San Mateo, California Jail Strip Search Plaintiffs Win Class Certification by The U.S.D.C. (N.D. Cal.) granted plaintiff's F.R.Civ.P. Rule 23 motion for class certification of her civil rights action against San Mateo County, California for the class of strip searched pre-arraignment jail detainees between February 3, 2002 and December 2, …
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