YPSILANTI (AP) — Female prisoners who say they were forced to undergo humiliating searches have won a key decision at a federal appeals court.
The court says former warden Millicent Warren doesn’t have immunity in a lawsuit that alleges violations of constitutional rights.
Women returning from trips outside the Huron Valley prison in Washtenaw County were ordered to sit on a chair and spread their knees for a thorough body search in view of many others.
After complaints, the searches were stopped in 2011 unless there was reasonable suspicion of contraband.
Warren and the Corrections Department are being sued by women who say the earlier practice violated their rights.
The appeals court on Wednesday said there are ways to search prisoners in private that don’t violate the constitution. The case now returns to Detroit federal court.
- Posted March 14, 2016
- Tweet This | Share on Facebook
No immunity for ex-warden in lawsuit over body searches
headlines Macomb
- All hands on deck for mock trial
- Man arraigned on charges including aggravated child sexually abusive activity
- Nessel urges residents to report threats, suspicious activity following Temple Israel attack
- Woman sentenced after pleading no contest to charge related to death of woman on I-696
- American Bar Association announces 2026 women lawyers of achievement
headlines National
- Did They Know the Score? Amid March Madness, questions remain about college athletes indicted in fixing scheme
- Google’s AI platform incited man’s death by suicide and ‘mass casualty’ attempt, suit alleges
- Goldman Sachs’ top lawyer, who has been linked to Epstein, exits with $25M pay package
- 2 lawyers convicted in staged truck accidents scheme
- Elon Musk defrauded Twitter investors in $44B buyout, jury finds
- Federal judges speak out about threats becoming ‘ordinary’
