Arrestee Strip Searches
The Fourth Amendment Rights of Prisoners
The Fourth Amendment protects against “unreasonable searches and seizures.” This term, the Supreme Court will weigh that Bill of Rights protection against the need to ensure the safety of the inmates and employees in our Nation’s prisons. The case in question began on March 3, 2005, when April Florence was pulled over by a State trooper while she was driving her husband Albert and their three children to her mother’s house in Burlington County, New Jersey. When Albert Florence identified himself as the owner of the vehicle, the trooper arrested him on an outstanding civil contempt warrant from Essex County,…
