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Can't Search Visitor Leaving Prison
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1991
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1991, page 7
Prison officials suspected that an inmate's minor sister had been smuggling marijuana in to him during her regular visits. An officer was posted to watch the inmate and his sister during the next visit. He did not see them pass anything. At the close of the visiting period, a female …
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More from this issue:
- Washington Supreme Court Rules on Lifers, by John Midgley
- Caging America: The U.S. Imprisonment Binge, by Patricia Horn
- Prison System Increases Cell Integration to Avoid Fines
- Abuses Continue at Ansar 3
- Pig Park Update
- Unlawful Orders Cannot Be Enforced With Violence
- Privacy Right Not To Be Viewed Naked by Opposite Sex Prison Guards
- Right to Practice Religious Beliefs
- Due Process Distinguished
- Attention Former PAP Members, by Jane Kuja
- Reviews
- Prison Guards: Victims or Villains?, by Paul Wright
- Universal Suffrage: Give Us A Voice!, by Tom Sparks
- Sheriff Can't Release AIDS Test Results
- Violent Crime Rate Up, Again
- Editorial, by Ed Mead
- Can't Search Visitor Leaving Prison
- No Minimum Wages for Convicts
- Search of Legal Files Violates Consent Decree
- Mandatory Sentencing Flops in Florida
- Passin' Gas, by Clark Stuhr
- Letter from Germany
- Pelican Bay News
- Info on Free
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