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now at least they can bring in dope and cocealed weopons......viva the brothers!
A total victory for prison drug dealing.
Those that actually went to jail/prison received food and shelter that they did not pay for. Perhaps this money should be paid back to the taxpayers instead...
I don't know why people on this blog tend to focus on the negative criminals of society. Imagine being taken to jail for a simple infraction and being violated by someone putting their fingers inside you. There were truly innocent people affected by this crime and who knows what psychological damage could have been done.
I was 1 of over 400 non-violent protesters of the RNC jailed in 2000. We were strip searched. A prison doctor told me that he was going to give us all (the women) Pap smears and then winked in a gross way. We were hoping that Bush wouldn't be elected. I was arrested for holding a sign in front of city hall and spent 13 days in jail. All charges were eventually dismissed. The strip search was unnecessary and demeaning. I wish this suit covered back to 2000 but I'm glad they are doing something now.
The attorneys representing them will share $1.7 million in fees. That says it all .
Joke of a city! You shouldn't have any right while in prison. Search them inside and out!
I guess jeffrn didn't read "The procedure typically included visual "cavity searches," requiring suspects to squat and bend over." Putting fingers inside someone for a search requires a search warrant (it seriously does). I bet you're the type of guy that would sue the prisons if you were to get stabbed there. You can't have it both ways.
If I hold a sign to disagree with a governmental matter they have the right to hold me in jail and violate my body. You actually agree with this sentiment? You really believe that that level of personal intrusion is necessary for EVERY person arrested, innocent or not?
Absolutely. Every prisoner should be thoroughly searched before being admitted into a prison. I'd actually prefer an all-inclusive policy rather than have some arbitrary guideline dictating who gets searched and who doesn't.
phillypapers: it's not the jail's job to determine guilt or innocence. Only to detain you and keep you, other inmates, and staff safe during that detainment. Anything that diminishes the jail's ability to do that job makes the jail more inherently dangerous. Now that there is more gray area in the policy wait for the follow-up profiling/discrimination suit for those who are still strip searched.
"Now that there is more gray area in the policy wait for the follow-up profiling/discrimination suit for those who are still strip searched." If they get sued, it's their fault for not establishing and following a policy with no "gray area". I don't cry a river when the government gets sued because they violated the law. Do you?
Yes hfjhfj, because it our money. The settlement admits no guilt. Nobody knows whether the government "violated the law". They settled because it's cheaper (as usual) to settle a suit, than risk going in front of an activist judge. There was no gray area in the policy before. Now there will be. And needless to say, everybody who gets searched now is going to complain that they were violated.
And just to add on the legality of the searches.... The Supreme Court sided with prisons on this issue in Bell v. Wolfish.
Seeing how easy it is to get arrested in Philly, I'm glad the city lost this case and the policy has changed. Too many people get arrested by some overzealous cops, mistaken identity, and false claims of domestic violence, just to mention a few. For you overzealous people that approve blanket strip searches, just keep in mind, you never know if you will get mistakenly or accidently arrested. It can happen to anyone. To be stripped naked and then a stranger peers into private places is got to be extremely humiliating, especially for your daughter, wife, girlfriend, or mother. Drug dealers, on the other hand, are known to hide money and drugs on their person. Regarding the law firm, I have no objection to their fee. They won the case for the plaintiffs, risking the possibility of losing the case and not getting paid for their services. It takes a lot of hours to set up appointments and to meet thousands of plaintiffs and interview them for their deposition.
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