This is what happened to a woman who was visiting her husband in a prison in California. How can America claim to be "better" than Russia, Iran or North Korea on human rights?
The wife of a California inmate was sexually violated during a strip search when she tried to visit her husband in prison. After traveling four hours to see her husband at a correctional facility in Tehachapi, Calif. on Sept. 6, 2019, Christina Cardenas was subject to a strip search by prison officials, subjected to drug and pregnancy tests, X-ray and CT scans at a hospital, and another strip search by a male doctor who sexually violated her.
Although prison officials conducted their searches on the basis of a warrant, the warrant said a strip search could only be conducted if an X-ray found any foreign objects that could be contraband in Cardenas' body. but neither the X-ray nor the CT scan found any evidence of such.
Although she is only a visitor and is not accused of anything, she was put in handcuffs in a “humiliating perp walk” while being taken to and from the hospital, and denied water or use of a bathroom during the search process. She was told she had to pay for the hospital's services and later received invoices for a combined total of more than $5,000. And at the end of all this humiliation, and despite no contraband being found in any of her belongings or her body, Cardenas was denied her visit with her husband.
California prisons have faced an ongoing problem of sexual abuse and misconduct, with the the U.S. Justice Department announcing it had opened an investigation into allegations that correctional officers systematically sexually abused incarcerated women at two state-run California prisons.
Earlier this year the federal Bureau of Prisons announced it will close a women’s prison in Northern California known as the “rape club” after investigations exposed rampant sexual abuse by correctional officers.
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