Seems Like Common Sense to Me

Common sense has been in rapid decline for quite a while. You don't want to be strip searched, don't commit a crime. Besides, most of those complaining probably fly and they get strip searched ever time they go through the full body scanner.

People should talk to the ones who work in the facilities and ask them what stories they have!   If you want dignity....don't do something stupid that gets you put in jail!

Falls under the same commom sense rule that says inmates get a better life on the INSIDE than many do on the outside.  3 meals a day, clothes, bed, heat, air conditioning, gym memebership.  I realize they can't leave this horrible place.....

Same common sense that says we can't drug test people who request welfare?  Many people's companies have to drug test, why can't we test people who accept free money.  Thier rights were given  up when they accepted the "job of free money."

If it sounds like common sense it doesn't belong in our government. 

Here's the rest of the story:

In a 5-4 decision, the court ruled against a New Jersey man who was strip searched in two county jails following his arrest on a warrant for an unpaid fine that he had, in reality, paid.

The decision resolved a conflict among lower courts about how to balance security and privacy. Prior to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, lower courts generally prohibited routine strip searches for minor offenses. In recent years, however, courts have allowed jailers more discretion to maintain security, and the high court ruling ratified those decisions.

In this case, Albert Florence's nightmare began when the sport utility vehicle driven by his pregnant wife was pulled over for speeding. He was a passenger; his 4-year-old son was in the backseat.

The first strip search of Florence took place in the Burlington County Jail in southern New Jersey. Six days later, Florence had not received a hearing and remained in custody. Transferred to another county jail in Newark, he was strip-searched again.

Do you really think this guy should've been strip searched...twice? Really?

Background:

In 1979, the Supreme Court upheld a blanket policy of conducting body cavity searches of prisoners who had had contact with visitors on the basis that the interaction with outsiders created the possibility that some prisoners had obtained something they shouldn't have.

For the next 30 or so years, appeals courts applying the high court ruling held uniformly that strip searches without suspicion violated the Constitution.

But since 2008 — in the first appellate rulings on the issue since the Sept. 11 attacks — appeals courts in Atlanta, Philadelphia and San Francisco have decided that a need by authorities to maintain security justified a wide-ranging search policy, no matter the reason for someone's detention.

The high court upheld the ruling from the Philadelphia court, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Dale, so your position is: if you get arrested (even when it is not warranted), for something as simple as an unpaid fine you should be strip-searched. 

I think it wholly unnecessary and it appears the right-wing activist court strikes again at curtailing even the most basic civil liberties....unless of course it comes to gun ownership.

Oh, let me add: I'm not saying people shouldn't be searched even for the most minor of offenses, just not strip-searched and all that that may entail.

I picked up papers at my local courthouse/jail.  At the door I was prohibited from bringing in my 1" Swiss army knife (which I always have on my key chain) but was permitted my Waterman pen.  I told the cop that I could do more damage with the pen.  He agreed, but said it was not so conceable.

You see, I could give my knife to someone who could give it to someone and it could finally find its way into an inmate's hands and be easily concealed under his tongue or in his butt.

Just the month before a guard had an eye slashed out by one. 

The jails HAVE to treat everyone equally.  They have no idea who is dangerous and who is not.  Who has intention and who does not.  Who is evil and who is not.

And there is a WHOLE lot of evil out there.

I had to agree with the cop.  I took my dangerous knife back to my car.  And I was permitted my pen.

There are so many bleeding hearts out there that are in ivory towers.  Many of the justices especially at the federal level become ideologues because they have lifetime appointments and cannot be removed from office.  If it was mandatory for them to spend a year in the criminal court, they might just change their tune.  But probably not.  They get outraged at waterboarding the mastermind behind 9/11 and yet remain deafeningly silnet when Nick Berg gets beheaded on TV.