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"Female guards OKd to strip-search male inmates"

"Female guards OKd to strip-search male inmates": Today in The San Francisco Chronicle, Bob Egelko has an article that begins, "A male prisoner can be strip-searched by a female guard even if male officers are available, a federal appeals court has ruled. In a 2-1 decision, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco dismissed an Arizona inmate's claims that jail officials had violated his rights by having a female guard trainee search inside his shorts and pat down his genitals."

You can access Monday's ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit at this link.

Full post as published by How Appealing on May 21, 2009 (boomark / email).