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Prison warden faces suit for firing guard after strip-search

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — An Arkansas federal court allowed a prison guard to bring her retaliatory seizure and unlawful seizure claims against the prison warden, who fired her a few days after she was strip-searched, interrogated and detained by fellow guards when a tampon was revealed in her pelvic region during an X-ray scan as she walked into work.

Read the ruling here.

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