Should Minor Offenders Be Subject To Strip Searches? (AUDIO)

http://www.npr.org/2011/10/12/141243323/should-minor-offenders-be-subject-to-strip-searches



The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments Wednesday in a case testing whether prison guards may constitutionally strip-search even minor traffic offenders when they are arrested and taken to jail.

For decades, most courts did not allow such blanket strip searches, but in recent years, the pendulum has swung the other way.