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OH Visitor Search Illegal
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1995
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1995, page 18
The Franklin County Court of Appeals in Ohio has held that an anonymous letter alleging drug smuggling by a prison visitor is insufficient to constitute "reasonable suspicion" which would authorize a strip search of the visitor. Terry Morris, the warden of the Chillicothe Correctional Institution, received an anonymous letter from ...
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