Supreme Court Approves Strip Searches For Any Arrestable Offense

sl4shd0rk writes "Taking a page out of the TSA handbook, the Supreme Court has voted to allow strip searches for any offense, no matter how minimal. The article cites these two tidbits from Justice Anthony Kennedy: 'Every detainee who will be admitted to the general [jail or prison] population may be required to undergo a close visual inspection while undressed,' and 'Maintaining safety and order at detention centers requires the expertise of correctional officials.'"

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This seems reasonable

[SuperKendall]

If you allowed anyone to go into prison without careful screening, it would be no time at all before people would be getting themselves arrested for petty offenses simply to act as mules bringing weapons and banned goods into the prison - something that is already an issue but it would explode.

I'm not sure what people have against someone who, remember, has already been convicted of a crime, to have to endure special screening before incarceration. They don't have the right to leave any time they want either, why should they have the right not to submit to visual inspection? The simple fact is that as a criminal you lose some rights you would have otherwise, so it's not like this ruling has general applicability we need to be concerned about.