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- Title
"PRISONERS OF THE MIND"?: THE INAPPROPRIATENESS OF COMPARING THE INVOLUNTARILY COMMITTED MENTALLY ILL TO PRETRIAL DETAINEES IN FOURTH AMENDMENT ANALYSES.
- Authors
Trevey, Carol
- Abstract
The article presents information on the lack of privacy in case of confinement and the need of suspicionless searches before and after visitation. A focus is on the U.S. Fourth Amendment based on individualized suspicion in pretrial detainees and convicted prisoners and the legal status of the involuntarily committed. The institutional violence and the need of courts to refer the mental health professionals before judgments are also discussed.
- Subjects
RIGHT of privacy; IMPRISONMENT; VISITATION rights (Domestic relations); SEARCHES &; seizures (Law); PRETRIAL detainees -- Conditions of confinement; LEGAL status of prisoners; PRISON violence; MENTAL health personnel
- Publication
University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, 2011, Vol 13, Issue 5, p1435
- ISSN
1521-2823
- Publication type
Article