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Visitor Search Held Illegal
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
February, 1995, page 4
Lenora Daugherty frequently visited her husband at the Turney Center, a Tennessee state prison. Prior to one of Daughertys visits a prison guard told the warden that he had received information that she was smuggling drugs into the prison. The warden also received two letters stating the same. Based on …
Filed under:
Strip Searches,
Visitor Searches,
Vehicle Searches,
Crime/Demographics,
Informants,
Qualified Immunity.
Location:
Tennessee.
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