How to Use strip search in a Sentence

strip search

noun
  • The administrators ordered random strip searches of all prisoners.
  • One of their attorneys, Kevin Mehr, acknowledged that strip searches are needed in jails.
    — Colleen Slevin, Denver Post, 15 Aug. 2025
  • And concerns about strip searches and the quality of health care provided in DOC facilities have spurred calls for change.
    — Emilia Otte, Hartford Courant, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Quiros has supported the installation of body scanners in prison facilities to replace strip searches, something that advocates have called for for years.
    — Emilia Otte, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Youth who are committed to a detention center are more likely than other juveniles to have suffered abuse and neglect, and strip searches can retraumatize them.
    — Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Attorneys say the incident breaks multiple policies, including rules that strip searches of women must happen in private with no male deputies present unless there's an emergency.
    — Brad Hamilton, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2025
  • The facility, under a consent decree since 2017, has eliminated pepper spray and reduced the use of strip searches and restraints.
    — Molly Beck, jsonline.com, 2 Oct. 2025
  • After its seemingly benign opening, the movie captures the appalling conditions under which the inmates are kept, with unblinking scenes of bullying, force feeding, strip searches and squalor.
    — Chloe Veltman, NPR, 16 Feb. 2026
  • The ombudsman’s office recommended that the Division of Youth Services keep electronic records about strip searches instead of handwritten ones.
    — Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2025
  • A number of San Francisco city leaders joined activists today demanding answers and action, after allegations that deputies recorded strip searches at the county jail back in May.
    — Brad Hamilton, CBS News, 25 Nov. 2025
  • On average, staff members found contraband in just 10% of the 1,009 strip searches for reasonable suspicion that the ombudsman’s office reviewed.
    — Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2025
  • His attorney argues the conditions — constant escorts, strip searches and isolation — constitute unlawful punishment rather than necessary precautions for the detainee’s safety.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2026
  • Like other female inmates in Tennessee and beyond, Sellars experienced strip searches that are more humiliating than what men experience because of their menstrual cycles.
    — Amanda Lee Myers, USA Today, 29 June 2026
  • That low percentage suggests that detention center staff are misusing strip searches, said Dana Flores, senior manager for youth justice in Colorado at the National Center for Youth Law.
    — Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2025
  • For instance, Loevy represented two people arrested in 2005 and subjected to strip searches at the Cook County Jail, contending that the strip-search procedures violated their constitutional rights.
    — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2026
  • The ombudsman’s office discovered 1,006 policy violations across 1,009 youth strip searches statewide during three three-month stretches in 2023, 2024 and 2025.
    — Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The office also recommended more oversight of strip searches for reasonable suspicion by the Division of Youth Services Quality Assurance, a unit within the state Department of Human Services that is tasked with oversight of the juvenile detention centers.
    — Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Between February 2019 and July 2024, investigators found that Aber had logged in to access body camera footage over 3,000 times, mostly to watch footage labeled as strip searches, without any apparent legitimate reason, according to the arrest affidavit.
    — Colleen Slevin, Denver Post, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Staff at Colorado’s juvenile detention centers violated policies meant to protect youth during strip searches more than 1,000 times during nine months between 2023 and 2025, according to a new review by the Child Protection Ombudsman of Colorado released Tuesday.
    — Shelly Bradbury, Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2025

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