12 Years After Degrading Mass Strip Search, Women in Prison Won $1.4M Settlement
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“It was horrific,” Michelle Wells recalls of the morning when the “Orange Crush,” a notorious band of prison guards, stormed through her cellblock at Lincoln Correctional Center, in central Illinois, to conduct a mass shakedown. “They’re not friendly,” she told Truthout in an interview. “When they come in, they come in trashing everything.” Wells was taken out of her cell, ordered to stand in the...