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| VA curbs strip-searches |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 07/11/2006 |
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RICHMOND, Va. Officials at Brunswick Correctional Center have worked out an arrangement for fewer strip-searches on inmates who attend Protestant services at the prison. Cecil McFarland, president of the Chaplain Service of the Churches of Virginia, said last month that the strip-searches were inappropriate. Inmates said that sometimes they were subjected to strip-searches after leaving Sunday evening services in the prison's visiting area. Prison officials said that's because the visiting area is outside the secure area of the prison. Corrections Department spokesman Larry Traylor told the Richmond Times-Dispatch yesterday that the prison now will allow multiple services, rather than one large one, so all the services can be held inside the prison in smaller rooms. Traylor said in an email that the change will "greatly reduce the occurrence of strip-searching." McFarland says he hopes the arrangement has resolved the situation. |
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