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01/19/2017 / By D. Samuelson

Women sexually violated when visiting NYC jail, then threatened with legal action

The New York Department of Corrections (DOC) has a long history of illegal, invasive and humiliating strip searches. According to The New York Times, in a 10-month period spanning 1996 and 1997, more then 50,000 individuals – many of whom were either first time offenders, or arrested for “minor infractions like loitering, disorderly conduct or subway offenses” – […]

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