Welcome to the fascist police state... -----Original Message----- From: Jerry Milo Johnson [mailto:jmi...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 12:41 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small
Can you look at the specifics of this case, and please explain to me how this fits in with the idea of the United States of America that we were taught we lived in? And that you agree that this was reasonable, and should be allowed? I don't see it. The arrest should not have happened. The strip search should not have happened. Being jailed should not have happened. The transfer to PRISON should not have happened. The second strip search should not have happened. I am flabbergasted that this is acceptable in America. Truly. On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Justin Scott <leviat...@darktech.org> wrote: > > > On a 5-4 vote, court says that it is just peachy to strip search > > anyone before putting them in a jail cell even if there is no cause > > to think that they have any contraband and no matter how trivial the > > offense was. > > Being that my primary work deals with the corrections industry and I > have a lot of close contact with staff at several county jails, I do > understand why the jails have these blanket policies. From what I've > been told, inmates, their families, or their gangs will sometimes hire > people to hide drugs on their person and then get arrested on purpose > on some minor charge for the sole purpose of smuggling drugs and other > items into the jail. > > Unfortunately our litigation-happy culture has made it nearly > impossible for the jails to be subjective about nearly anything. > Where common sense and on-the-fly judgement would make sense in the > real world, they have to use blanket policies and procedures and "no > exceptions" style rules to ward off lawsuits from the inmates. Where > they were once able to pick and choose who to strip-search, they've > been litigated into just making it standard practice for everyone > being booked in. > > There is a safety aspect to it for the jail staff and contractors who > have to work in their facilities, as well as a protection to prevent > discrimination/harassment lawsuits from inmates who feel that they've > been singled out for those kinds of searches (which, in theory, saves > the taxpayers money on several fronts). > > > -Justin > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:349406 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
