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Public Strip Searches Unlawful
Loaded on June 15, 1994
published in Prison Legal News
June, 1994, page 7
Alvin Canell is an Oregon state prisoner held at the Oregon Corrections Intake Center (OCIC), which is jointly operated by the Oregon DOC and Clackamas County. Upon arriving, leaving or after any trip outside of OCIC, prisoners are made to disrobe, lift their genitals, bend over, spread their buttocks and …
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