I'm not sure what you're saying, Dana. Judah
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Dana <dana.tier...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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:349401 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
