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| Strip search of children, others investigated |
| By News & Observer |
| Published: 01/03/2005 |
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N.C. Correction Department officials investigated two strip searches of visitors this year at the Pamlico Correctional Institution that they say violated department policy because local law enforcement officials were not present. In one search, on Feb. 7, 2004, three children were stripped to make sure they were not hiding drugs, weapons or other contraband. The adult visitors removed the children's clothing at the request of prison staff. Nothing was found on the children or the adults, and all were allowed to visit inmates. According to a Correction Department report, the Pamlico County Sheriff's Department had been contacted to conduct the search, but officials there said they had no one available. Boyd Bennett, the prisons director for the Correction Department, confirmed that there was a second search that lacked police presence, but the department did not provide records of that search. He said they are the only two instances he is aware of at any state prisons in which improper searches were conducted. He said the investigation is complete but he wouldn't say whether any action was taken against staff. He said that would be a personnel matter exempt from the state's public records law. |
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