Children Strip Searched By Guards
June 7, 2001
In the midst of a city investigation and FBI probe, the District of Columbia fired four local jail officials, including the warden, after reports that three middle-school children on a field trip to the jail were subjected to strip searches. The city's Corrections Department has had a "crime awareness prevention program" since the 1980s, which allows children and nonprofit groups to tour jail facilities. Evans Middle School brought some of its students between the ages of 12 and 14 to visit the jail. After the tour, jail employees reported that three students were strip searched during their visit.
The warden of the District of Columbia jail was fired for not following up on the reports, as were the three officers who allegedly conducted the strip searches. While announcing the terminations, chief of the Corrections Department also announced that middle school students would no longer be allowed to tour D.C. jails.
A group of students and their parents have filed a lawsuit against the city seeking several million dollars in damages stemming from the incident.
-- Article Courtesy of InjuryBoard.com
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