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You Can Get Strip Searched for an Unpaid Parking Ticket: Thanks, U.S. Supreme Court

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Conservative Byte

Bad news if you don’t like getting dehumanized: The U.S. Supreme Court just ruled 5-4 to OK strip searches for any offense.

What this means: if you get booked for an offense as minor as an unpaid parking ticket, you might have to bare all for corrections officers before being admitted to jail.

Yep, you read that right. Something as minor as an unpaid parking ticket can require that you suffer an immense indignity — including cavity searches — without having been convicted of any crime.
 
And jail officials don’t even have to suspect that you’re carrying contraband.

Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who wrote the majority opinion, said that “every detainee who will be admitted to the general population may be required to undergo a close visual inspection while undressed” and that this does not violate Fourth Amendment prohibitions against illegal searches and seizure.

But the dissenting opinion decried the decision as disproportionately invasive.
 


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[tombogan03884]

Your source is "the Village Voice" ?

I will point out that a while back (last winter ? ) there was a thread about a guy in jail who had been found with a revolver shoved up his ass, so maybe this isn't so unreasonable.

[santahog]

For having to go through that without having even been charged, it might be worth using the thing..

[tombogan03884]

For having to go through that without having even been charged, it might be worth using the thing..

On himself if his homey's ever found out.   

[JLawson]

The introduction of weapons and contraband into the correctional environment is an extremely serious problem.  It places everyone's lives at risk... offenders as well as staff.  You would be amazed at the items that can "fit" in various places - folding knives, cell phones, batteries, ammunition, small guns, drugs, etc.  Here in Texas, back in the latter part of 2009, a 500-pound man concealed a gun in his fat folds - and IIRC he had been searched twice before it was discovered.

If you work in corrections or have loved ones that do then maintaining a safe working environment is at the top of everyone's list.  Unfortunately, however, that isn't always possible.

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[lhprop1]

The introduction of weapons and contraband into the correctional environment is an extremely serious problem.  It places everyone's lives at risk... offenders as well as staff.  You would be amazed at the items that can "fit" in various places - folding knives, cell phones, batteries, ammunition, small guns, drugs, etc.  Here in Texas, back in the latter part of 2009, a 500-pound man concealed a gun in his fat folds - and IIRC he had been searched twice before it was discovered.

If you work in corrections or have loved ones that do then maintaining a safe working environment is at the top of everyone's list.  Unfortunately, however, that isn't always possible.

I second this.  My best friend's dad is a guard at Oak Park Heights, a level 5 SuperMax, and he tells us absolutely incredible stories of the things they find on (er, I mean 'in') prisoners.  It seems that some of the prisoners have nothing short of an army duffle bag for an anal cavity.

[tombogan03884]

In the book "Papillon" the guy who supposedly escaped from Devil's Island tells about keeping all his valuables in a tube stuffed up his butt the way you or I would put a wallet in our pocket.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papillon_%28book%29

JLawson, the pistol I referred to earlier was the size of a K frame S&W   

[santahog]

How bout an X-Ray, (or better yet, an MRI).. The first would answer the question and the second would provide the answer.. As for the latter, just make sure it's a soundproof room with a floor drain and a bottle of bleach handy..
(He said he wasn't hiding anything. We had no reason to doubt this word. The MRI was just protocol..)
If you pulled that for about 6 months, the attempts might slow down just a little.

[r_w]

How bout an X-Ray, (or better yet, an MRI).. The first would answer the question and the second would provide the answer.. As for the latter, just make sure it's a soundproof room with a floor drain and a bottle of bleach handy..
(He said he wasn't hiding anything. We had no reason to doubt this word. The MRI was just protocol..)
If you pulled that for about 6 months, the attempts might slow down just a little.

Or switch to plastic shanks...

[tombogan03884]

How bout an X-Ray, (or better yet, an MRI).. The first would answer the question and the second would provide the answer.. As for the latter, just make sure it's a soundproof room with a floor drain and a bottle of bleach handy..
(He said he wasn't hiding anything. We had no reason to doubt this word. The MRI was just protocol..)
If you pulled that for about 6 months, the attempts might slow down just a little.

Give the job to TSA.