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Third Circuit Okays Blanket Strip-Search Policy for Juvenile Detainees

In a decision filed September 15, 2015, the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that a juvenile detention center policy which required strip searches of all detainees upon intake, regardless of the seriousness of their crimes, did not violate the constitutional prohibition on unreasonable searches. The decision reversed a ...

 

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