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From: cliff@unmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Strip Searches
Message-ID: <604@unmvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Jan-85 00:11:14 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 25 00:11:14 1985
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Organization: Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque
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"SAN FRANCISCO (October 20, 1983)

Female inmates of San Quentin prison will have to endure strip searches and
showers under the scrutiny of male guards, says a Federal judge who ruled that
privacy is secondary to security.

U.S. District Judge Spencer Williams yesterday dismissed a class-action suit
brought by three inmates who complained it was humiliating to be naked in front
of male guards at the maximum-security facility.  They also complained some of
the male guards verbally harassed them.

Williams said use of male guards didn't violate the inmates' constitutional
right to privacy and said security needs justified the physical observation
and hands-on searches by correctional officers, including men.

The ruling protects men's employment rights in correctional facilities, said
California Attorney General John Van de Kamp."

I don't like it!  Seems to me there it shouldn't be hard to hire female guards
for that purpose.  What do others think?

			--Cliff