CoreCivic Denies Subjecting Officer To Body Cavity Search – Law360

By Victoria McKenzie (October 6, 2021, 6:49 PM EDT) -- Private prison operator CoreCivic has denied allegations that its employee subjected a corrections officer to a warrantless and "dehumanizing" body cavity search in the middle of a Georgia prison parking lot, in violation of her Fourth Amendment rights.

In a response filed in Georgia federal court Monday, CoreCivic denied that the officer was patted down, strip-searched twice or had her keys taken away after a metal detector allegedly malfunctioned at the Wheeler Correctional Facility.

The officer did go through the metal detector a second time without triggering an alarm, the company said; and a CoreCivic captain called the police and requested...

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