Prison company fights to seal documents about strip searches

Friday, August 26, 2016

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Private prison operator Corrections Corporation of America is trying to seal from public view documents in a lawsuit that claim female visitors to a Tennessee prison were forced to undergo strip searches to prove they were menstruating.

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