Civilly Committed Sex Offenders: Strip Searches and Full-Restraints Transport Policy
Author: Fred Cohen.
Source: Volume 15, Number 04, November/December 2013 , pp.53-53(1)
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Abstract:
Patients held in the Minnesota Sex Offender Program (MSOP) raised a number of issues regarding their conditions of confinement, including claims of unconstitutionality related to full body strip searches and the use of full body restraints, among them the dreaded black box, a wrist chain and leg irons, anytime a patient travels outside the facility’s secure perimeter.Keywords: Beaulieu v. Ludeman, 690 F.3d 1017 (8th Cir. 2012)
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