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NYC to pay $33 million over illegal strip-searches

Posted on March 26th, 2010 by Global Ganja Report and tagged New York, New York City, police state, United States.

For the third time in ten years, New York City has agreed to pay millions of dollars to settle a lawsuit over illegal strip searches of thousands of nonviolent prisoners. The settlement, announced March 22, 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 jails.

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