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Male Guards’ Videotaping of Female Prisoners Being Strip Searched Results in $675,000 Settlement
Loaded on Feb. 2, 2016
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2016, page 30
Filed under:
Staff-Prisoner Harassment,
Guard Misconduct,
Gender Discrimination -- Women,
Strip Searches,
Body Cavity Searches,
Videotaping.
Location:
Massachusetts.
In August 2014, a Massachusetts federal district court granted summary judgment to a class of 176 former and current prisoners who challenged a policy at the Western Regional Women’s Correctional Center (WCC) that allowed male guards to videotape female prisoners being strip searched. The court held the policy violated the ...
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