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| Ruling Lets Inmates Sue |
| By The Chicago Sun Times |
| Published: 12/26/2005 |
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Will County officials violated the constitutional rights of some Illinois jail inmates by forcing them to undergo strip searches, a federal judge ruled last week. The decision issued by U.S. District Judge Robert W. Gettleman clears the way for some 4,000 former and current Will County Jail inmates who were strip-searched since May 2001 to seek damages from the county. Those damages could reach $4 million, estimated an attorney for the inmates who filed the class-action federal lawsuit. Gettleman ruled that officials in the Will County sheriff's department erred in imposing strip searches on everyone jailed for failing to appear in court, even if those defendants originally faced only traffic citations or misdemeanor charges. Gettleman also found sheriff's officials went too far in ordering "pre-release'' strip searches for such defendants who were freed from the jail after appearing Superintendent Announced in NC Associated Press Sorrell Saunders will be the next superintendent for North Carolina's Sanford Correctional Center, state prison officials said last week. "Sorrell has demonstrated leadership and exceptional interpersonal skills, in addition to having developed a broad, statewide perspective of prison corrections in North Carolina," said Boyd Bennett, director of the state Division of Prisons. "We are glad he was available to be appointed to this position." Saunders succeeds Wayne Talbert, who was named superintendent at Hyde Correctional Institution. Sanford is a minimum-security prison with about 300 prisoners and 75 employees. Saunders had been assistant superintendent at the prison since 2000. |
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