ok, but you're arguing for keeping people in individual cells, which is fine for a few hours maybe, but impractical for the week this man was incarcerated, not to mention that it would itself draw complaints of inhumane treatment.
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote: > > I'll let the lead author of the dissent, Justice Breyer, in this case > take out your argument: > > **** > The New York Federal District Court, to which I have referred, > conducted a study of 23,000 persons admitted to the Orange County > correctional facility between 1999 and 2003.These 23,000 persons > underwent a strip search of the kind described. Of these 23,000 > persons, the court wrote, the County encountered three incidents of > drugs recovered from an inmates anal cavity and two incidents of > drugs falling from an inmates underwear during the course of a strip > search. The court added that in four of these five instances there > may have been reasonable suspicion to search, leaving only one > instance in 23,000 in which the strip search policy arguably > detected additional contraband. > > [...] After all, those arrested for minor offenses are often stopped > and arrested unexpectedly. And they consequently will have had little > opportunity to hide things in their body cavities. > > **** > > 1 incident out of 23,000 that might have uncovered something illicit > with a strip search that was not based on reasonable suspicion. And no > incidents that found any weapons. > > Now, about these hypotheticals y'all keep saying aren't hypothetical... > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:349399 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
