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Forcing people to undress strips them not only of their clothing but also of their sense of autonomy and humanity, turning a basic search procedure into a method of psychological torture and intimidation.
Forcing individuals to undress during border procedures can legally occur under certain circumstances, such as during strip searches aimed at uncovering contraband or ensuring safety.
But my heart was with my sisters inside.
Bobby Ryan poses for the Canadian Thunder calendar (August) on STRIP SEARCH.
STRIP SEARCH finalists Malcolm Foster, Carlo Spina, Daniel Bennato, Bobby Ryan, Michael Scratch and Vince Johansson with hosts Misty Lowrey and Bruce Turner. With that in mind, I signed the settlement agreement.
The shame of those days stayed with me for years.
People who experience this often stripped in public or semi-public settings, either as part of body searches, as a form of humiliation, or as a means to exert control.
The finalists of STRIP SEARCH, Canadian Thunder. We stood there as various other men who weren’t on staff walked up and down the hallways watching us.
Some of us had to remove sanitary products right there in front of them.
But this one, a settlement payment from the Illinois Department of Corrections (IDOC), was different.
Bobby Ryan poses for the Canadian Thunder calendar (December) on STRIP SEARCH.
Strip and intimate searches factsheet
Official statistics regarding strip searches conducted by the police are currently not centralised.
Michael Scratch poses for the Canadian Thunder calendar (March) on STRIP SEARCH. Testimonies make clear that strip searches are motivated more by a desire to intimidate, humiliate, or degrade than by any legitimate security concern. Then they marched us to the gym, lined us up shoulder to shoulder and told us to face the wall under the threat of solitary confinement.
But that shame should not be mine. As with my second experience, male and female staff, officers and cadets woke us up early in the morning, screaming: “Get up, get dressed and don’t say a word! The gym bathroom, with its collection of mirrors along the wall, was wide open. The court, he said, did not place high priority on prisoners being strip searched.
I was still not going to sign.
Instead, in the context of pushbacks these legal conditions are entirely violated.
Daniel Bennato poses for the Canadian Thunder calendar (January) on STRIP SEARCH.