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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.

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