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Western Massachusetts Regional Women’s Correctional Center

On the Way to Solitary, Women in Massachusetts Jail Get Strip Searched and Videotaped

May 15, 2014October 19, 2015 Victoria Law
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“When women are moved to the Segregation Unit for mental health or disciplinary reasons, they are strip searched. With four or more officers present, the inmate must: take off all her clothes, lift her breasts and, if large, her stomach, turn around, bend over, spread her buttocks with her hands and cough, and stand up […]