2012
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Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders of County of Burlington et al. Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit: Syllabus
U.S. Supreme Court (Washington, DC).
The “search procedures at the county jails struck a reasonable balance between inmate privacy and the needs of the institutions, and thus the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments do not require adoption of the framework and rules petitioners proposes” (p. 2). The judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit is affirmed.... Read More
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41 pages
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2008
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C. Alan Powell, et al., Plaintiffs -- Appellees -- Cross-Appellants v. Sheriff Jacqueline Barrett, et. al., Defendants -- Appellants -- Cross-Appellees
U.S. Court of Appeals (11th Circuit).
The court finds that the "policy or practice of strip searching all arrestees as part of booking them into the general population of a detention facility, even without reasonable suspicion to believe that they may be concealing contraband is constitutionally permissible" and not a violation of the Fourth Amendment, "at least where the strip search is no more intrusive than the one the Supreme Court upheld in Bell v. Wolfish, 441 U.S. 520, 99 S. Ct., 1861 (1979)" p. 2.... Read More
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52 p.
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1999
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Cross-Sex Pat Search Practices: Findings from NIC Telephone Research
LIS, Inc. (Longmont, CO)
National Institute of Corrections Information Center (Longmont, CO)
National Institute of Corrections. Prisons Division (Washington, DC).
Findings of this telephone survey indicate that in prisons of six states (Connecticut, Kansas, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, and the Muncy facility in Pennsylvania) and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBP) cross-sex pat searches of women are performed routinely. Most of the 49 states (Alaska was not contacted) report that same sex or cross-sex pat searches of women are done only in an emergency. In many men's institutions, the practice is different. They report having a split policy in which... Read More
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3 p.
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1992
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Policies Regarding Searches of Visitors: A Survey
By Scholes, Patricia.
National Institute of Corrections (Washington, DC).
National Institute of Corrections Information Center (Longmont, CO); LIS, Inc. (Longmont, CO).
Policies of six western prison facilities and one department of corrections regarding searches of visitors are briefly reported.... Read More
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2 p.
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1988
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RISC Management (Apprehension and Defensive Tactics): A Training Guide for Probation and Parole Agents
By Colby, Marc H.; Krahn, Adelaide B..
National Institute of Corrections (Washington, DC).
Wisconsin Division of Corrections (Madison, WI).
Objectives of this training guide include explaining the RISC Management confrontational continuum, explaining how to implement RISC Management, demonstrating pat down and search techniques, and defining deadly force. Designed for probation and parole agents, this basic course requires 16 hours of instruction. The guide is available in a loose-leaf format.... Read More
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57 p.
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