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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 • April 1, 2025 • from PLN April, 2025
Georgia Fights Liability for Strip-Searching Prison Visitor, Nevada Pays $126,500 by After a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit found for Georgia prison officials in a suit brought by a prison visitor they subjected to a strip-search, the decision was vacated on October 3, …
Article • June 1, 2022 • from PLN June, 2022
$12.5 Million Settlement Over Invasive Strip and Body Cavity Searches of NYC Jail Visitors by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On November 29, 2021, the federal court for the Southern District of New York approved the final settlement of a class-action civil rights lawsuit over suspicionless and invasive “strip/body cavity” …
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, …
Article • February 1, 2021 • from PLN February, 2021
NY Federal Court Denies Summary Judgment on Claims of Improper Medication Seizure, Evidence Fabrication, Improper Frisk During Prison Visit by Matthew Clarke by Matt Clarke On September 21, 2020, a New York federal court issued an order denying the state summary judgment on some claims arising from a woman’s visit …
Article • August 1, 2020 • from PLN October, 2018
$12.5 Million to Settle Class Action Suit Over Strip Searches of NYC Jail Visitors by Anthony Accurso by Anthony W. Accurso New York City agreed to pay victims $12.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit on October 18, 2019, brought by visitors to New York City jails at the Brooklyn, …
Article • June 1, 2020 • from PLN June, 2020
Filed under: Visitor Searches
Hawaii Institutes Non-Contact Visits at Another Prison to Control Contraband by Kevin Bliss by Kevin Bliss Hawaii’s Department of Public Safety (DPS) has now banned contact visits at three of the state’s correctional institutions: Oahu Correctional Community Center (OCCC), Maui Correctional Community Center (MCCC), and Halawa Correctional Facility (HFC). The …
Article • April 1, 2020 • from PLN April, 2020
Virginia Governor Suspends Policy After Eight-Year-Old Strip Searched During Prison Visit by Bill Barton by Bill Barton On December 6, 2109, Governor Ralph Northam suspended a Virginia Department of Corrections (DOC) policy that authorized strip searches of minors. An 8-year-old girl had been subjected to a strip search November 24, …
Grottano et al. v. The City of New York, et al., NY, order granting preliminary approval of class action settlement, strip searches of jail visitors, 2019 Case 1:15-cv-09242-RMB-KNF Document 258 Filed 10/30/19 Page 1 of 6 Case 1:15-cv-09242-RMB-KNF Document 258 Filed 10/30/19 Page 2 of 6 Case 1:15-cv-09242-RMB-KNF Document 258 …
Grottano, et al. v. The City of New York, et al., settlement and order, strip searches of jail visitors, 2019 Case 1:15-cv-09242-RMB-KNF Document 251-3 Filed 10/21/19 Page 2 of 41 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK DANA GROTTANO; N.D.; A.R.; and D.M., individually and on behalf of …
Article • August 6, 2019 • from PLN August, 2019
Filed under: Visitor Searches, Visiting
Problems with Ion Scanners Used to Detect Drugs on Prison Visitors by Edward Lyon by Ed Lyon Ion scanners were initially installed in prisons in the early 1990s to detect controlled substances on visitors, whose hands and clothes are typically swabbed for testing. But visitors and prison staff who filed …
Article • December 13, 2018
Va. court finds prison employees met reasonable suspicion burden in visitor strip search by R. Bailey by R. Bailey A Virginia federal district court granted the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) summary judgment in a lawsuit alleging constitutional violations occurred when a visitor was strip searched. Angela Calloway sued VDOC …
Article • November 7, 2018 • from PLN November, 2018
Dog-Sniff Search Policy Allowed Under Massachusetts Law, but APA Procedures Required by The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held on April 19, 2018 that the Massachusetts Department of Correction (MDOC) had authority to implement a policy that requires prison visitors to be subject to drug-detecting dogs. However, the Court also found the …
Brief • April 19, 2018
Carey, et al. v. Commissioner of Correction, MA, opinion, drug sniffing dogs, 2018 NOTICE: All slip opinions and orders are subject to formal revision and are superseded by the advance sheets and bound volumes of the Official Reports. If you find a typographical error or other formal error, please notify …
Brief • April 19, 2018
Carey et.al. v. Commissioner of Correction, MA, drug-sniffing dogs, order, 2018 NOTICE: All slip opinions and orders are subject to formal revision and are superseded by the advance sheets and bound volumes of the Official Reports. If you find a typographical error or other formal error, please notify the Reporter …
Publication • January 1, 2018
"It Makes Me Want to Cry" Visiting Rikers Island ‘It Makes Me Want to Cry’: Visiting Rikers Island NYC Jails Action Coalition January 2018 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1 Section I: The Importance of Visits 1 Section II: Visiting Rikers Island 2 Section III: What Visitors Say About Visiting 3 …
Article • June 9, 2017 • from PLN June, 2017
Filed under: Visitor Searches
Maine State Prison Rescinds Bra-removal Policy for Female Visitors by When Air Force veteran Stacy Venable arrived at the Maine State Prison on February 11, 2017 to visit her nephew as she had several times a year for the past seven years, she was ushered through a metal detector as …
Article • May 1, 2017
Behind bars, beyond means: the crushing expense of loving someone in prison by Lisa Riordan Seville by Lisa Riordan Seville and Zara Katz, The Guardian When Kristal Bush’s mother nearly went broke from the expense of visiting her son in prison, Kristal saw an opportunity to connect Philadelphia families to loved …
“A Living Nightmare” by Women Visiting Loved Ones Jailed at Rikers Describe a Pattern of Invasive Searches by Guards By Raven Rakia, The Intercept Reprinted with permission from The Intercept. The Intercept's story was produced in partnership with WNYC.   On July 2, 2015, Jasmine Quattlebaum took the bus to Rikers Island to …
Article • August 23, 2016
N.Y. Ex-Con Goes Back to Jail for Going Back to Jail by One day, Matthew Matagrano, 36, was a corrections investigator, waving around a shiny, gold badge to gain entry into any of New York City's jails. The next, they wouldn't let him leave. On March 2, 2013, Matagrano, of …
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