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NY: City Reaches $33 Million Settlement Over Illegal Strip Searches for the 3rd Time in Ten Years!

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

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City Reaches $33 Million Settlement Over Strip Searches By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT Published: March 22, 2010- NY Times For the third time in a decade, New York City has agreed to pay millions of dollars to settle a lawsuit stemming from the illegal strip searches of thousands of nonviolent prisoners. The settlement, which was announced on Monday, provides $33 million to the roughly 100,000 people who were strip-searched after being charged with misdemeanors and taken to Rikers Island and other city correction facilities. Under the Giuliani administration, in 2001, the city settled a similar case filed on behalf of more than 50,000 people who were strip-searched as they waited to be arraigned, spending about $40 million. In 2005, the city once again agreed to pay several million dollars, this time to settle the claims of thousands of people who were illegally strip-searched in at least six New York detention centers, including Rikers Island, between 1999 and 2002...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 26, 2010 (boomark / email).