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California DOC Stipulates to Removal of Visitor X-Ray Ma-chines, but Damages Appeal Dismissed
Loaded on July 15, 2008
by John Dannenberg
published in Prison Legal News
July, 2008, page 40
by John E. Dannenberg
Filed under:
Searches,
Mechanical Searches/Scanners,
Visitor Searches,
Appeals,
Qualified Immunity.
Location:
California.
On November 20, 2007, the California Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal filed by a group of Lancaster State Prison visitors who sought damages for being subjected to Secure 1000 X-ray machines whenever they visited prisoners at the facility. The Secure 1000 is a low-level “backscatter” ...
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