Forum Newsfront

June, 1986

Cheap ThrillsSan Francisco---Male prisoners' right to privacy is not violated by women guards' conducting pat-down searches or witnessing them taking showers, according to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. In upholding a Federal district judge's dismissal of a class-action suit by three San Quentin prisoners, the appellate court found that prison authorities "have devised the least intrusive means to serve the state's interest in prison security."What a TeamWashington, D.C.---The Rea...