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Rectal Search Upheld
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1992
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1992, page 10
James Terrovona is a Washington state prisoner who was transferred from IMU (Intensive Management Unit) in Walla Walla to IMU in Shelton. Upon arrival at Shelton and before being put in the IMU there Terrovona was subjected to a digital rectal search by DOC officials. He then filed suit under ...
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