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Body Cavity Searches Reasonable and Unreasonable

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has held that prisoners retain some
degree of Fourth Amendment rights and that the government must justify the
reasonableness, and in some cases give notice, before conducting body
cavity searches on prisoners.

Body cavity searches were performed on two female prisoners, on two
separate ...

 

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