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Article • May 15, 2007
CO Jail Strip Searches Illegal by The court of appeals for the Tenth Circuit held that it was illegal for jail guards to strip search a Colorado motorist arrested for speeding and driving with a suspended license when no reasonable suspicion existed that he was concealing contraband on his person. …
Article • May 15, 2007
New York County Could Be Liable for Jail Strip Searches by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that Herkimer County (New York) was not entitled to qualified immunity if it maintained a policy that allowed the routine strip-searching of misdemeanor arrestees without reasonable suspicion that they …
New York County and Sheriff Liable For Illegal Strip/Body Cavity Search by A New York woman filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 after being arrested on misdemeanor charges and subjected to a strip/body cavity search at the jail. A U.S. district court granted Respondents' motion for summary judgment, 630 …
Article • May 15, 2007
Indiana Arrestee Strip Searches Unconstitutional by The Supreme Court of Indiana held that routine warrantless strip searches of misdemeanor arrestees, even when incident to lawful arrests, are violative of the Indiana Constitution and the Fourth Amendment. This criminal case was before the court on a motion to suppress cocaine found …
Article • May 15, 2007
7th Circuit Holds $60,000 Illinois Strip Search Award Not Excessive by On Nov. 29, 1983, the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that a strip-search claimant's $60,000 jury award against the City of Chicago was not excessive even though it was larger than awards in similar cases. Four female …
Kansas Strip-Search Suit Subject to Three-Year Statute of Limitation by Shawn McCormick was arrested in Lawrence Kansas where police subjected him to a strip search and a body cavity search. More than two years later, but less than three, he filed suit in state court under KSA § 22-2523, claiming …
Article • May 15, 2007
$30,000 Paid for Broadcasting Florida Jail Strip-Search by After being arrested for battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest with violence, and disorderly conduct, the plaintiff in this case was taken to Florida's Delray Beach Police Department's holding cell to await his transport to the Palm Beach County Jail. …
Arrestee Strip Search Upheld in Maryland by The plaintiff was arrested on an outstanding warrant and detained for about 14 hours. Her neck brace and medication were confiscated and not returned during that period. The pain the plaintiff suffered from lack of medication and neck brace was not a serious …
Article • May 15, 2007
$35,000 Settlement in Maine Jail Strip-Search Case by After he was arrested on a misdemeanor charge, Geoffrey V.V. Wood was strip-searched at Maine's Hancock County Jail. Wood filed suit, alleging the strip search procedures were illegal and unconstitutional. He settled his lawsuit in May 2004 for $35,000. See: Wood v. …
9/11 Immigration Detainee Challenges Denial of Counsel, Religious Diet by The plaintiff was arrested on September 12, 2001, on the belief that he was connected with the 9/11 hijackers, and transferred to a federal prison, where he was subjected to a visual body cavity search viewed by multiple male and …
Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007
$205,000 Settlement in Massachusetts Strip Search Suit by On December 27, 2006, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts agreed to pay $205,000 to settle a class action lawsuit alleging hundreds of arrestees were illegally strip searched at the Hampshire Jail and House of Corrections between January 18, 2002 and November 7, 2002. …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
$2.5 Million Settlement for Illegal Strip Searches in Connecticut Jail by The State of Connecticut has entered into a settlement agreement that will cost it $2.5 million for a correctional policy of strip searching all detainees regardless of their charges. The settlement comes in a class action filed in a …
Article • February 15, 2007 • from PLN February, 2007
Illinois Jail’s Strip Search Policy Unconstitutional by Michael Rigby Illinois Jail's Strip Search Policy Unconstitutional by Michael Rigby On December 16, 2005, a federal district judge ruled that the Will County, Illinois jail routinely violated prisoners' Fourth Amendment rights by subjecting them to a blanket strip search policy, paving the …
Illegal Strip Searches Cost MTC, New Mexico County $8.5 Million by Michael Rigby Management and Training Corporation (MTC) and Santa Fe County, New Mexico, will pay $8.5 million to settle with an estimated 13,000 former prisoners who were unconstitutionally strip searched at the Santa. Fe County Detention Facility between January …
Article • December 15, 2006 • from PLN December, 2006
San Francisco Jails Strip Search Policy Ruled Unconstitutional By Federal Court by John Dannenberg San Francisco Jails Strip Search Policy Ruled Unconstitutional By Federal Court by John E. Dannenberg The U.S. District Court (N.D. Cal.) ruled on motions for summary judgment that the City and County of San Franciscos blanket …
Article • November 15, 2006 • from PLN November, 2006
$6,280,000 Settlement For Illegal California Juvenile Hall Strip Searches by John Dannenberg by John E. Dannenberg On July 10, 2006, the County of Sacramento, California agreed to pay $6,280,000 to the class of juvenile hall detainees who were illegally strip-searched between January 1, 1998 and October 1, 2004 at the …
District of Columbia Jail Pays $14 Million For Over-Detentions and Strip Searches by Bob Williams While denying a pattern and practice of over-detentions and strip searches, the District of Columbia (the District) has agreed to pay $12 million to settle a class-action lawsuit plus an additional $2 million in additional …
Article • September 15, 2006 • from PLN September, 2006
New York Strip-Search Suit Settled for $1.7 Million by A federal class action suit, challenging a New York jail's blanket misdemeanor strip-search policy has been settled for $1,783,670.20. Timothy Maneely brought suit in federal court, challenging the City of Newburgh, New York policy of strip searching all arrestees without reasonable …
Cell-Block Beatdown: Do Boston Prisoners Have Any Chance of Holding Abusive Prison Guards Responsible? Signs Are Not Promising by David S. Bernstein Cell-Block Beatdown: Do Boston Prisoners Have Any Chance of Holding Abusive Prison Guards Responsible? Signs Are Not Promising by David S. Bernstein Stories about prison guards beating up …
New York City Jail Strip Search Suit Settles For $30 Million by by John E. Dannenberg On April 27, 2005, the City of New York agreed to settle a federal court class action 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights suit with 57,634 past misdemeanant prisoners at its city jails, paying …
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