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Illegal Strip Searches Cost MTC, New Mexico County $8.5 Million

Loaded on Jan. 15, 2007 by Michael Rigby published in Prison Legal News January, 2007, page 34

Filed under: Private Prisons, Management and Training Corporation, Strip Searches, Arrestee Searches, Municipal Liability. Location: New Mexico.

Management and Training Corporation (MTC) and Santa Fe County, New Mexico, will pay $8.5 million to settle with an estimated 13,000 former prisoners who were unconstitutionally strip searched at the Santa. Fe County Detention Facility between January 2002 and June 2006. The Utah-based MTC, which operated the jail from October ...

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