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Jail strip-search policy adjusted to curtail abuse

JACKSON, Miss. — A federal judge in Mississippi granted the Department of Justice’s request to require the troubled Hinds County Jail, located in the state’s capital city, to ban cross-gender strip searches and visual body cavity searches, with limited exceptions, among other policy adjustments intended to reduce violence, sexual assault and other misdeeds at the facility.

Read the ruling here.

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