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| Rensselaer County to pay jail inmates for illegal strip-searches |
| By Newsday |
| Published: 10/11/2004 |
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More than 800 former inmates at the Rensselaer County (N.Y.) Jail who were illegally strip-searched will get $1,000 each later this month under a court settlement. The inmates will share $800,000 and attorneys representing them will get $372,000. The settlement has been approved by U.S. District Judge Thomas McAvoy. It settles a class action lawsuit filed in June 2002 accusing jail officers of conducting blanket strip searches and body cavity examinations on thousands of inmates from June 26, 1999 to July 1, 2002. A suit against Rensselaer County was originally filed on behalf of Nathaniel Bruce Jr. of Troy. He claimed officers humiliated him after he was arrested on minor charges in November 2001. The claims will be paid through the county's insurance carrier. Unclaimed funds will go to the county. Rensselaer County officials had originally feared the amount of the settlement would be much larger since they expected about 2,000 former inmates to join the claim. Some of the plaintiffs in the case said they were ridiculed about the size of their genitals, body shapes and odors while being searched. |
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