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03-15-08, 08:08 PM
Four held nude in jail seek damages
Lawsuits of three men, woman are last of those brought by ex-prisoners against the Saginaw County Jail.
Doug Guthrie / The Detroit News
DETROIT -- Justin Anderson was 21 when he hit a stop sign in 1999 outside Saginaw and was arrested for drunken driving. When he objected inside the Saginaw County Jail to police questions about a missing girl, jailers threw him naked into a solitary confinement cell called "the hole."
He wasn't the only one nude in the jail. For years, Saginaw County deputies had a policy of stripping prisoners they deemed uncooperative.
Officials said they ended the practice in 2001. Four years later, U.S. District Judge David M. Lawrence made it official, deeming the policy unconstitutional in a ruling that had an impact on jails statewide.
Rest of the article:
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080314/METRO/803140351
That's messed up. I would have cranked one out just to make them clean it up. Besides, isn't a cop's job to ENFORCE the law and not MAKE it?
Lawsuits of three men, woman are last of those brought by ex-prisoners against the Saginaw County Jail.
Doug Guthrie / The Detroit News
DETROIT -- Justin Anderson was 21 when he hit a stop sign in 1999 outside Saginaw and was arrested for drunken driving. When he objected inside the Saginaw County Jail to police questions about a missing girl, jailers threw him naked into a solitary confinement cell called "the hole."
He wasn't the only one nude in the jail. For years, Saginaw County deputies had a policy of stripping prisoners they deemed uncooperative.
Officials said they ended the practice in 2001. Four years later, U.S. District Judge David M. Lawrence made it official, deeming the policy unconstitutional in a ruling that had an impact on jails statewide.
Rest of the article:
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080314/METRO/803140351
That's messed up. I would have cranked one out just to make them clean it up. Besides, isn't a cop's job to ENFORCE the law and not MAKE it?