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Prison Visitor May Not Be Unreasonably Searched

Loaded on March 15, 1992 published in Prison Legal News March, 1992, page 5
Filed under: Searches, Strip Searches, Visitor Searches, Costs. Location: Rhode Island.
Dawn Cochrane filed suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 claiming her fourth amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches was violated when she was told to submit to a strip search or she would never be allowed to visit her father in prison again. Cochrane had visited her father in ...

 

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