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Women Learned Their Jail Strip Searches Were Recorded. Their Outrage Changed the Law.

Women who organized to push for a new Colorado law hope it will become a model for other states.

News • 08.27.2026

Cadets Violently Strip Searched Us As Part of Their Training. For My Pain, I Got $325.

Willette Benford was one of several incarcerated women who sued the Illinois corrections department for using mass strip searches to train cadets. A small settlement check took her back to the shame and trauma of those incidents.

Life Inside • 05.06.2021

I’ve Been Strip-Frisked Over 1,000 Times in Prison. I Consider It Sexual Assault

Strip-searching us for contraband is a perfectly legal way to rob incarcerated people of our humanity.

Life Inside • 02.04.2021

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