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Article • June 1, 2025 • from PLN June, 2025
$5.6 Million Settlement for California Prisoner’s Wife Strip-searched During Visit by Matthew Clarke On September 5, 2024, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) gave the last signoff to a $5.6 million settlement with the wife of a state prisoner who was forced to strip and submit to an …
Article • October 15, 2024 • from PLN October, 2024
Illinois Pays $3 Million for Subjecting Prisoners to Degrading Mass Strip Search by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso After a dozen years of fighting over a mass strip-search conducted during a training exercise in an Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) prison for women, the federal court for the Central …
Article • September 15, 2024 • from PLN September, 2024
Baton Rouge Cops Indicted for Violent In-Custody Strip-Search by On June 26, 2024, a special grand jury in Louisiana’s East Baton Rouge Parish indicted four officers with the Baton Rouge Police Department (BRPD) for their violent strip search of a suspect in custody. The September 2020 incident was recorded when …
Article • July 1, 2024 • from PLN July, 2024
Seventh Circuit Finds No Problem With Surveillance of Chicago Detainees on Toilets by David Reutter by David M. Reutter   On December 18, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed the grant of summary judgment to Defendant officials of Cook County in a civil rights action …
Suit Proceeds Against CoreCivic by Guard Strip-Searched at Georgia Prison by David Reutter by David Reutter   On March 13, 2023, the federal court for the Southern District of Georgia denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a guard for private prison giant CoreCivic, alleging she was unconstitutionally …
California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Et Al v. U.S.A, CA, Order Granting the Motion for Class Certification, Solitary Confinement, 2024 Case 4:23-cv-04155-YGR Document 222 Filed 03/15/24 Page 1 of 45 1 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 2 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 3 Case No.: 4:23-cv-4155-YGR 4 5 CALIFORNIA COALITION FOR WOMEN …
Eighth Circuit Affirms Denial of Qualified Immunity to Minnesota Jail Guard Accused of Grabbing and Squeezing Detainee’s Penis by Mark Wilson by Mark Wilson On August 24, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed denial of qualified immunity (QI) to a Minnesota jail guard in a …
Brief • December 8, 2023
Filed under: Strip Searches
Phillips v. Hulett, IL, Order on Final Approval and Final Judgment, Strip Search, 2023 3:12-cv-03087-JEH # 323 Filed: 12/08/23 Page 1 of 4 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE CENTRAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS PATRICIA PHILLIPS, et al., Plaintiffs, -vsMELODY HULETT, et al., Defendants. ) ) ) ) ) …
Brief • November 29, 2023
Filed under: Strip Searches
Phillips v. Hulett, IL, Settlement, Strip Searches, 2023 3:12-cv-03087-JEH # 322-2 Filed: 11/29/23 EXHIBIT 1 Page 1 of 25 3:12-cv-03087-JEH # 322-2 Filed: 11/29/23 Page 2 of 25 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE CENTRAL DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS SPRINGFIELD DIVISION PATRICIA PIDLLIPS, et al., Plaintiffs, -vsMELODY HULETT, et …
Article • November 15, 2023 • from PLN November, 2023
Connecticut Lawmakers Punt on Limiting Prison Strip Searches by David Reutter by David M. Reutter During their 2023 session, Connecticut lawmakers took a pass on legislation to rein in routine prison strip searches, which advocates testified were “humiliating” and “intrusive.” There was, however, widespread interest in appearing interested in the …
Brief • November 9, 2023
Patterson v. Virginia Department of Corrections, VA, Complaint, Gender Discrimination-Strip Search, 2023 Case 3:23-cv-00757-DJN Document 1 Filed 11/09/23 Page 1 of 23 PageID# 1 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA Richmond Division MALLORY PATTERSON, EMILY COMER, and CARLA MCDOWNEY, on behalf of themselves and …
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Court Orders Preliminary Injunctive Relief for Transgender Massachusetts Prisoners by Douglas Ankney by Douglas Ankney In consolidated cases, the Massachusetts Superior Court for Suffolk County ordered preliminary injunctive relief on December 30, 2022, for a pair of transgender women incarcerated at the state’s Souza Baranowski Correctional Center (SBCC). Each woman …
Article • July 15, 2023 • from PLN July, 2023
$15,001 Verdict Against Delaware Guard for Gaping Prisoner’s Butt During Strip Search by Keith Sanders by Keith Sanders On February 6, 2023, Judge Paul Wallace in Delaware Superior Court upheld a jury’s $15,001 award for damages against George Pyle, a guard with the state Department of Corrections (DOC), in a …
Article • March 1, 2023 • from PLN March, 2023
Seventh Circuit Sides With Muslim Prisoner, Bars Strip Search by Transgender Wisconsin Guard by David Reutter by David M. Reutter On September 16, 2022, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that forcing a Muslim prisoner “to submit to cross-sex strip searches” by a transgender Wisconsin guard …
Brief • December 30, 2022
Filed under: Strip Searches, Transgender
Tibbs v. Morales, MA, Memo and Order, Transgender, 2022 �ll� cl, u/\f \,1� J: II COMMONWEALTH OF MASSAQWSETIS SUP�OR COURT CIVIL ACTION No.1984CV01506 SUFFOLK, ss. JEROME TIBBS a/k/a NINA TIBBS RICHARD L� MORALES & others1 �UPERIOR COURT CIVIL ACTION No.2184CV00384 SUFFOLK,-ss. JEROME TIBBS aJk!a NINA TIBBS & DARIUS GIBSON CAROL …
Brief • June 9, 2022
Filed under: Strip Searches
Rogers v. DCYF, WA, Settlement, Strip Search, 2022 1 2 3 4 5 The Honorable RICHARD A. JONES U.S. Magistrate Judge MICHELLE L. PETERSON 6 7 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA 8 9 MICHAEL ROGERS, et. al., 10 11 12 CASE NO. 3:21-cv-05248-RAJ-MLP Plaintiffs, vs. …
Article • March 1, 2022 • from PLN March, 2022
Seventh Circuit Reinstates Illinois Prisoner’s Suit Over ‘Orange Crush’ Shakedown by David Reutter by David M. Reutter The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held on August 25, 2021, that a district court erred in dismissing a state prisoner’s pro se lawsuit by failing to make a finding …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Filed under: Strip Searches, Settlements
$53 Million Settlement in Los Angeles Jail Strip Search Lawsuit Approved by David Reutter by David M. Reutter A California federal district court approved a $53 million settlement in a class action lawsuit alleging women held by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) were subjected to “highly invasive body …
Article • December 1, 2021 • from PLN December, 2021
Prison Visitors Have Fourth Amendment Right to Refuse Strip Search and Option to Leave Prison by The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that a strip search of a prison visitor without first giving them the option of the leaving the prison was unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment. The court, …
Brief • October 25, 2021
Howard v. City of Houston, TX, Omnibus Response to Dft's Motions to Dismiss, Excessive Force, 2021 Case 4:21-cv-01179 Document 44 Filed on 10/25/21 in TXSD Page 1 of 10 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS HOUSTON DIVISION AUNDRE HOWARD, Plaintiff, v. CITY OF HOUSTON, …
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