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Search of Prison Visitors Without Probable Cause Illegal
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1991
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1991, page 6
Search Of Prison Visitors Without Probable Cause Illegal
Filed under:
Searches,
Strip Searches,
Visitor Searches,
Vehicle Searches,
Qualified Immunity.
Location:
Tennessee.
Lenora Daugherty is the wife of a Tennessee prisoner who was subjected to a visual body cavity search and a search of her vehicle in 1988 as a condition to be able to visit her husband, no contraband was found during the ...
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