Huron Valley prison for women stops routine strip search described as "sexually humiliating"

[Bozita]

Source: MLive.com

Huron Valley prison for women stops routine strip search described as "sexually humiliating"
Published: Monday, April 16, 2012, 10:45 AM Updated: Monday, April 16, 2012, 11:17 AM
By Melissa Anders | [e-mail]

The Michigan Department of Corrections has stopped a particular body cavity search on female prisoners that inmates and human rights groups have described as degrading and unhygienic.

Inmates at Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Ypsilanti were subject to a strip search after each contact visit with family, friends, attorneys, religious workers and others. In addition to a standard strip search, the women were required to sit on a chair and use their hands to spread their genitals, allowing a guard to visually search for any hidden contraband.

The American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to the MDOC on Thursday, demanding for a “decisive end” to the practice. In addition to the ACLU, it was signed by 34 human rights, health, legal and religious organizations and individuals.

The ACLU said the searches are no more thorough than standard strip searches and that they exacerbate trauma and mental illnesses, especially among prisoners who have been sexually abused.


Read more: http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/04/michigan_female_inmate_strip_search.html

[truthisfreedom]

1. Thoroughly disgusting.

Manimals.

[anti-alec]

7. Keep Kenneth Faried out of this.

Thanks!

(His nickname is Manimal)

[aquart]

2. But the Supreme Court said OKAY!

[bemildred]

3. Couldn't we use sonograms for this?

[jeepnstein]

4. You'd be surprised...

what they'll stash up there. Yeah, it's degrading. So is smuggling contraband drugs and materials in your vagina. Prisoners, by and large, are not the most trustworthy people you'll ever meet.

[bemildred]

5. I'd be disgusted.

There is no excuse for this sort of shit. Weenie guards, cowards, and perverts.

[SemperEadem]

8. oh please, a TSA body scanner will do the same thing

[Honeycombe8]

12. Those are expensive. Public institutions don't have big budgets. nt

[fascisthunter]

9. yeah... maybe a gremlin...

yuh just never know.....

[jeepnstein]

13. Last one I remember getting caught...

at work was smuggling a can of Mountain Dew. Cigarettes and drugs are more common.

Until you've been around hard-core jail birds for a while you just can't really understand how twisted and weird it can get at times.

[fascisthunter]

16. Jayzus....

...what you just stated, I know of. But I think this law is over-the-top.

[Uncle Joe]

6. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Bozita.

[Auntie Bush]

10. I can't imagine the horror of having to go through that sort of strop search or any other kind for t

There just has to be another less humiliating way. Than god the stopped that. What do other prisons do.

[provis99]

11. drugs are brought in by prison staff, not inmates or visitors.

these searches serve no purpose whatsoever.

[4th law of robotics]

14. Err . . . you don't think it could be both?

[bemildred]

15. There's not really much point is searching the inmates if the guards

are going to bring stuff in anyway. They are just protecting their own racket, keeping prices up, maintaining their control of the business.