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No Qualified Immunity for Rectal Searches

The court of appeals for the Ninth circuit upheld the denial of qualified immunity to Washington prison officials who bad promulgated a policy requiring that all prisoners in Intensive Management Units (IMU) be subjected to digital, rectal probes by prison medical staff. Thousands of such searches were carried out with ...

 

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