Legal Opinion
Mack v. Suffolk County
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided February 16, 2000No. Civ.A. 98-12511-NGPublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
GERTNER, District Judge.
Plaintiff Katrina Mack (“Plaintiff” or “Mack”) and four potential intervenors (“Plaintiffs”) seek to represent a class of women subjected to strip-searches and visual body cavity inspections during pre-arraignment detention at the Suffolk County jail. The searches were not episodic. They were conducted pursuant to an official policy of the Suffolk County Sheriff’s office. They were conducted regardless of the charge; every single female pre-arraignment detainee was required to be strip-searched, whether detained for a misdemeanor or a felony. One…
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