Becoming arrested and going to prison would not be something that would be on anybody's "bucket list" but in this country that incarcerates its population at the highest rate (or possibly the 2nd highest rate after Seychelles) per every 100,000 people in the entire world, this then must be seen as something that is much more than a distant possibility in America, but as something indeed that no matter your circumstances or your station in life could happen to you.
While incarceration may mean a lot of things to a lot of different people, in America, incarceration at its most fundamental basis, is humiliation, to which those that imprison you will make sure that you are quite aware that they are your masters, and you are their subjects, in which your previous identity, your God-given humanity, will be eviscerated in short order. For instance, most prisons make it as part of their policy, that all prisoners are stripped-search before entering into the general population in prison.
In the scheme of things, throughout your entire life, there are no social situations to which you are subjected to a strip search, and even when you visit a medical doctor, a degreed professional, his search of any of your body orifices is expressly done with your permission and done so with as much dignity that can be presented to you in these types of situations, recognizing that the medical doctor is there to support and to help you in your maintenance of good health. A strip search in prison, is however, something of an entirely different milieu, of which the ostensible reason is to search your body cavities for contraband, but the reality is that the prison authorities find that strip searches are a quick way to establish clearly to prisoners, that prisoners have no inherent rights in regards to dignity or privacy and that this purposeful humiliation is there to break their spirit and their willfulness.
In today's high technology world, strip searches, with the possible exception of incorrigible prisoners should not be permitted, unless a positive is shown when running the handheld security wand over a person's body. This would seem to be a fairly reasonable way to doa search so as to verify that no contraband was coming into the prison, whereas the current strip search, despite what the Supreme Court justices stated in the Florence v. Burlington case, should be seen for what it really is, "an unreasonable search".
As bad as strip searches are for males, they are even more invasive and traumatic, quite obviously for females, to which not only are they required to be topless, but they are also forced to sit onto a chair and to spread their vaginal lips for inspection. Further, when it comes to feminine hygiene in prisons, many prisons do not provide tampons for their female prisoners, free of charge, but instead these must be purchased through the commissary or provided through an inmate package program.
For those that believe that strip searches are naturally appropriate for all prisoners, ask yourself this one thing, would you still believe it right, if it was your mother?