2,030 Strip Searches at Youth Prisons

The ACLU reviewed a year’s worth of strip search log to verify the low contraband percentage.

The ‘hit rate’ for finding contraband was 1.6%.

The civil rights organization, along with the Juvenile Law Center and with pro-bono assistance from Quarles & Brady, is suing on behalf of past and current inmates of the two facilities alleging the extreme disciplinary practices at Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake violate the inmates’ constitutional rights against unreasonable searches and cruel and unusual punishment. The suit alleges the institutions make routine use of strip searches, chemical sprays, solitary confinement and mechanical restraints.