A federal judge has given the go-ahead to a class-action suit charging that Gloucester County Jail strip searches of new prisoners, followed by delousing showers under guards’ watchful eyes, are constitutional rights violations when the inmates are detained for minor offenses.
U.S. District Judge Joseph Irenas on Monday certified a class of all pre-trial detainees charged with nonindictable offices and subjected to those procedures by the county sheriff’s department since March 2004, finding the plaintiffs met the threshold requirements of numerosity, commonality, typicality and adequacy of representation.
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