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Watching You, Watching Me
Publication year:
2003
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The need to adopt same-sex supervision for both female and male inmates in U.S. prisons is explained. This article is divided into the following four parts: the context of the problem -- early litigation, the enactment of legislation prohibiting sexual abuse of prisoners, domestic and international scrutiny of staff sexual misconduct with inmates; court decision-making on cross-gender supervision -- challenges under the Fourth and Eighth Amendment, Title VII, and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment; dignity and shame -- courts' contrasting views of the claims raised by male and female inmates; and conclusion.