DUI suspect files class-action suit over prison strip searches
Source: Associated Press (PA), 2/1/2008 3:33 AM
Court rulings prohibit routine strip searches of minor offenders, but a privately run prison conducts them on all new inmates, a lawsuit charged.
The potential class-action suit, filed in federal court this week against The Geo Group, involves a drunken-driving suspect who was strip-searched at a county prison the firm manages near Philadelphia.
...... The Geo Group, previously known as Wackenhut Corrections Corp., does not comment on pending litigation, spokesman Pablo Paez said Thursday.