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PLRA Bars Damages for Jail Strip Search Suit

A New Mexico federal district court applied the injury requirement of the Prison Litigation Reform Act to hold that two female pretrial detainees cannot recover damages for a Fourth Amendment claim of unreasonable strip searches.

The matter proceeded to a jury trial. The facts showed that while detained at the ...

 

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