Routine jailhouse strip searches OK'd by Supreme Court

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

WASHINGTON -- Jailers may perform invasive strip searches on people arrested even for minor offenses, an ideologically divided Supreme Court ruled Monday, the conservative majority declaring that security trumps privacy in an often dangerous environment.

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