From The Appeal:
In June, I stepped into a body scanner outside the visitation room at the Washington Corrections Center and held my breath. This was supposed to be an improvement. Until recently, prisoners had to submit to an invasive strip search after visits. The newly installed body scanner offered a more humane way to screen for contraband. I had nothing on me, so I figured I had nothing to worry about. But it’s never that straightforward in prison.
As I walked through the scanner, the guard operating the machine stopped me.
“It looks like he has something in his stomach,” he said to another guard. The two began to whisper while I waited. I’d heard other guys in prison encounter similar bogus findings on the scanner. Though there was nothing the machine possibly could have detected, I felt my chest tighten as I knew what was coming next.
“We need to strip search you,” the guard said. Continue reading >>>
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