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Shock and Humiliation: How People Are Being Strip-Searched for Trivial Offenses
This past April, the five conservative Supreme Court Justices gave jail officials the right to strip and search every person arrested and jailed, even if the alleged offense is trivial and there is no reason to suspect danger of any kind.
The ruling, in Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of County of Burlington , compounds the assault on human dignity committed by the Court in another 5-4 decision eleven years ago, in Atwater v. City of Lago Vista , when it authorized a full custodial arrest for even trivial “fine-only” offenses like a temporarily unbuckled seat belt.
Our right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures has once again been undermined by a narrow conservative majority concerned more with protecting public officials than with the rights of ordinary Americans …. http://www.alternet.org
2012-08-21 11:45:22
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2012/08/shock-and-humiliation-how-people-are.html
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