Is there a reasonable expectation of privacy in a prison cell?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Wilson v. Timko, 1992 WL 185446, 972 F.2d 1348 (9th Cir. 1992):
An inmate has no reasonable expectation of privacy in his prison cell. Hudson v. Palmer, 468 U.S. 517, 525-26 (1984). The Fourth Amendment prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures by the government does not apply within the prison cell. Id. at 526.
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