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Article • January 15, 1999 • from PLN January, 1999
BOP Visitors Subjected to Ion Scan by M L A memo has been posted alerting the population at USP-Lompoc [federal prison in Calif.] that a pilot program has been implemented whereby visitors will be scanned with a nuclear ion machine that detects "drug use". There are graduated penalties for those …
Probable Cause Required for Visitor Body Cavity Search by A federal district court in Utah held that prison officials must have probable cause and a valid search warrant before subjecting a prison visitor to a body cavity search. Stana Laughter is married to a Utah state prisoner. Laughter visited her …
Law on Strip Searches of Prison Visitors Clearly Established by The court of appeals for the second circuit held that the reasonable suspicion standard for strip searches of prison visitors is clearly established. However, the court decided that the defendants were entitled to qualified immunity based upon the facts. This …
Article • March 15, 1998 • from PLN March, 1998
California Irradiates Prison Visitors by 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' …
Article • June 15, 1997 • from PLN June, 1997
California Prisoners Entitled to Contact Attorney Visits by The California state court of appeals affirmed a superior court granting a writ of habeas corpus to a prisoner who was denied contact visits with his attorney. Alan Roark is a California state prisoner represented by Charles Lindner in his direct criminal …
Departing Visitor Cannot Be Searched -- Strip Search Okay by In the February, 1995, issue of PLN we reported Spear v. Sowders, 33 F.3d 576 (6th Cir. 1994) in which the court of appeals for the sixth circuit held that both the strip search and the car search of a …
Article • August 15, 1996 • from PLN August, 1996
Prison Visitor Allowed to Refuse Search by The court of appeals for the state of Maryland held that prison visitors cannot be searched once they agree to turn back from a guard booth; detention of a prison visitor requires probable cause based on a reasonable, articulable suspicion that the visitor …
Article • November 15, 1995 • from PLN November, 1995
OH Visitor Search Illegal by The Franklin County Court of Appeals in Ohio has held that an anonymous letter alleging drug smuggling by a prison visitor is insufficient to constitute "reasonable suspicion" which would authorize a strip search of the visitor. Terry Morris, the warden of the Chillicothe Correctional Institution, …
Article • September 15, 1995 • from PLN September, 1995
No Immunity for Visitor Searches by On March 3, 1989, a Kings County Assistant DA contacted the New York DOC's Inspector General (IG) and told him that he had received information that Joseph Varrone, a New York state prisoner, was involved in drug smuggling. More specifically, the DA claimed that …
Visitor Search Held Illegal by 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 …
No Immunity for Visitor Strip Search by Tina Spear regularly visited her boyfriend, Daniel Wade, at the Northpoint Training center, a Kentucky state prison. Upon arriving for a visit on Christmas day in 1990 prison officials told her she would not be allowed to visit Wade unless she submitted to …
Article • July 15, 1994 • from PLN July, 1994
NM Visitors May Refuse Searches by Diane Castro is married to a New Mexico state prisoner. Prison officials received an anonymous telephone call stating that Castro was smuggling drugs to her husband at the Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility (SNMCF). Upon her next visit Castro was taken to a conference …
Article • March 15, 1994 • from PLN March, 1994
The Rights of Visiting and Visitors by Paul Wright By Paul Wright For every prisoner and the relative, friend or loved one of a prisoner, visiting is an issue of paramount importance. While most prison officials pay lip service to the idea that visiting is important and that they want …
Article • January 15, 1994 • from PLN January, 1994
Visitor Cannot Withdraw Consent to Search Once Search Has Begun by Visitor Cannot Withdraw Consent To Search Once Search Has Begun This prison case comes to us via a suppression of evidence hearing in a federal drug prosecution. Arthur Spriggs went to visit a prisoner at the Lorton Reformatory, a …
Article • August 15, 1993 • from PLN August, 1993
California Visitor Search Ruling Modified by A 13-point injunction concerning searches of visitors to California prisons was scrutinized March 23 and modified in some particulars by the California Court of Appeals, First District. The injunction was the result of a suit challenging a program under which visitors' vehicles were subjected …
Article • March 15, 1992 • from PLN March, 1992
Prison Visitor May Not Be Unreasonably Searched by Dawn Cochrane filed suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 claiming her fourth amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches was violated when she was told to submit to a strip search or she would never be allowed to visit her father in …
Article • November 15, 1991 • from PLN November, 1991
Can't Search Visitor Leaving Prison by Prison officials suspected that an inmate's minor sister had been smuggling marijuana in to him during her regular visits. An officer was posted to watch the inmate and his sister during the next visit. He did not see them pass anything. At the close …
Article • October 15, 1991 • from PLN October, 1991
Search of Prison Visitors Without Probable Cause Illegal by Search Of Prison Visitors Without Probable Cause Illegal Lenora Daugherty is the wife of a Tennessee prisoner who was subjected to a visual body cavity search and a search of her vehicle in 1988 as a condition to be able to …
Article • August 15, 1991 • from PLN August, 1991
Prison Visitors May Not Be Searched Without Probable Cause by The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Tennessee prison regulations give Tennessee prisoners a due process liberty interest in prison visitation. The Court ruled that removing the visitation right in retaliation for the visitor refusing to submit to …
Article • July 15, 1991 • from PLN July, 1991
No Warrantless Search of Departing Visitor by No Warrantless Search Of Departing Visitor Prison officials strip-searched a prisoner's sister at the conclusion of a visit because of a suspicion that she was smuggling marijuana to him. Nothing was found. She brought suit under 42 U.S.C. section 1983. The defendant prison …
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