Allowing strip searches because jail or prison guards can't be bothered to sort out the violent criminals from those in for petty misdemeanors should appall all who read of this.

Part of the problem is that there are too many people in jail and prison anyway. Non-violent offenders are swelling the ranks when other punishments would be more appropriate. Many of the prisons and jails in the US are privately run and it benefits them to have more people put in prison, so they are behind lobbying to put specific sentences in place (circumventing judges who would use their common sense). And they can't be bothered to sort them out once they're in jail, so they'll strip search everyone.

Municipal jails are in question in this case, and there is no excuse for the information not being conveyed about the nature of the arrest and the reasonable expectation that this man had no deadly weapons or drugs stashed on his person.

SRS