How does the Fourth Amendment protect privacy in prison cell searches?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from McNeal v. Evert, No. 2:05-cv-0441 GEB EFB P (E.D. Cal. 2012):
The Fourth Amendment protects an individual's legitimate expectation of privacy in a given space from unreasonable intrusion by a government actor. See Hudson v. Palmer, 468 U.S. 517, 524-25 (1984). Because prisoners lack a legitimate expectation of privacy in their prison cells, the Fourth Amendment is no impediment to prison cell searches. Id. at 525-30.
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