If a minor criminal is arrested for a minor crime, can a strip and cavity search be carried out in prison?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Sloley v. VanBramer, 945 F.3d 30 (2nd Cir. 2019):

Federal constitutional law recognizes that a body-cavity search requires reasonable suspicion if a person is arrested for a misdemeanor : "the Fourth Amendment precludes prison officials from performing strip/body cavity searches of arrestees charged with misdemeanors or other minor offenses unless the officials have a reasonable suspicion that the arrestee is concealing weapons or other contraband ...." Weber v. Dell, 804 F.2d 796, 802 (2d Cir. 1986). There is thus an express distinction between misdemeanors (and other minor offenses) and felonies.

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