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California Irradiates Prison Visitors
Loaded on March 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1998, page 9
The California Department of Corrections (CDC) has installed nine high-tech X-ray scanners in six prisons and has plans to install them throughout the 33-prison system. The devices, based on "back-scatter" X-ray technology, are used to search visitors. The machine produces a crude image of visitors' bodies without their clothing. "I ...
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