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Boston Jail Strip Searches Unconstitutional
by John E. Dannenberg
A Boston City Police Department (BPD) policy of invasive and degrading strip-searching of all female detainees, regardless of the cause of their detention, while not similarly treating male detainees, violated the unreasonable search provisions of the Fourth Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth ...
A Boston City Police Department (BPD) policy of invasive and degrading strip-searching of all female detainees, regardless of the cause of their detention, while not similarly treating male detainees, violated the unreasonable search provisions of the Fourth Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth ...
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