Comments on: NINTH CIRCUIT TO RECONSIDER CROSS GENDER BODY SEARCHES http://takingthefifth-acriminallawblog.com/2009/10/07/ninth-circuit-to-reconsider-cross-gender-body-searches/ –A Criminal Law Blog Thu, 12 Apr 2012 09:14:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Iain Barnes http://takingthefifth-acriminallawblog.com/2009/10/07/ninth-circuit-to-reconsider-cross-gender-body-searches/comment-page-1/#comment-3690 Iain Barnes Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:55:57 +0000 http://takingthefifth-acriminallawblog.com/?p=2845#comment-3690 Would those (female!) judges have been quite so supportive of this gross intrusion of a prisoner's modesty had the roles of the sexes been reversed? Imagine the uproar had a male Correctional Officer parted a female prisoner's vulva, or felt beneath her breasts in such circumstances. Female guards are by no means quite as free from the very urges that (quite rightly) prohibit male guards from conducting such searches on female prisoners - see the recent alleged violation of a group of males at Beesville in Texas, where the "very young" CO ordered the prisoners to lower their boxers and lifted their testicles! As for female COs viewing men naked on a routine basis - well - need I say more! One rule for females, and another for males -equality indeed! Would those (female!) judges have been quite so supportive of this gross intrusion of a prisoner’s modesty had the roles of the sexes been reversed?

Imagine the uproar had a male Correctional Officer parted a female prisoner’s vulva, or felt beneath her breasts in such circumstances.

Female guards are by no means quite as free from the very urges that (quite rightly) prohibit male guards from conducting such searches on female prisoners – see the recent alleged violation of a group of males at Beesville in Texas, where the “very young” CO ordered the prisoners to lower their boxers and lifted their testicles!
As for female COs viewing men naked on a routine basis – well – need I say more!
One rule for females, and another for males -equality indeed!

]]> By: O http://takingthefifth-acriminallawblog.com/2009/10/07/ninth-circuit-to-reconsider-cross-gender-body-searches/comment-page-1/#comment-3082 O Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:43:52 +0000 http://takingthefifth-acriminallawblog.com/?p=2845#comment-3082 I agree with Judge Fernandez. There was no emergency that warranted such a search by this female officer. This kind of search should have been conducted by a male officer within Byrd's cell. I'm beginning to really become disgusted with the blatant disregard of male inmate privacy. Somebody please inject some common sense into our laws. I agree with Judge Fernandez. There was no emergency that warranted such a search by this female officer. This kind of search should have been conducted by a male officer within Byrd’s cell. I’m beginning to really become disgusted with the blatant disregard of male inmate privacy. Somebody please inject some common sense into our laws.

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