Where doubt exists, law and government are encumbered to come down on the side of individual liberty" (Thomas, 2003). ... The search and seizure provisions of the Fourth Amendment are all about privacy. Privacy in this circumstance is defined as the freedom to decide which details of your life will be revealed to the public and which will be revealed only to those you care to share them with. ... In theory, this means that the police may override your privacy concerns and conduct a search of your home, barn, car, boat, office, personal or business documents, bank account records, trash barrel ...

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Others may be recognized as the law develops. ... Federal and state laws govern the establishment and administration of prisons as well as the rights of the inmates (Lund, Lynn J., Deland, Gary, Gallaher, Sharon, and Bowker, Gary.) ... Inmates do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their prison cells and are not protected from "shakedowns," or searches of their cells to look for weapons, drugs, or other contraband. ... The US Constitution gives female inmates privacy rights that prevent male officers from "pat-down searching" them. ... Under protection of the Constitution, male in...

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