EFTA00108058¶
METROPOLITAN CORRECTIONAL CENTER¶
NEW YORK, NEW YORK¶
GENERAL POST ORDERS¶
SPECIAL HOUSING UNIT¶
THIS IS NOT AN ARMED POST¶
§ 115.15 Limits to cross-gender viewing and searches.¶
As of August 20, 2015, or August 21, 2017 for a facility whose rated capacity does not exceed 50 inmates, the facility shall not permit cross-gender pat-down searches of female inmates, absent exigent circumstances. Facilities shall not restrict female inmates’ access to regularly available programming or other out-of-cell opportunities in order to comply with this provision.¶
See the Program Statement Searches of Housing Units, Inmates, and Inmate Work Areas, or current version of this policy.¶
Post assignments may not be restricted on the basis of gender. Institutions will evaluate operational concerns consistent with collective bargaining obligations, the Master Agreement, and other laws, rules, and regulations. The agency will continue to comply with Title VII and other Equal Employment Opportunity Commission authorities in implementing this policy.¶
(c) The facility shall document all cross-gender strip searches and cross-gender visual body cavity searches, and shall document all cross-gender pat-down searches of female inmates.¶
Visual Search(Strip Search):¶
All inmates entering the institution from court, transfers or trips out in the community, will be visually searched (strip searched), and screened with the hand held metal detector. Inmates will also be visually searched when leaving the institution for any reason, including release. A thorough search of the inmate’s clothing will be completed. Except in emergency situations, all strip searches will be conducted by a staff member of the same sex as the inmate. At least one male and one female staff will be available 24 hours a day to conduct visual searches.¶
December 7, 2018¶
Sensitive But Unclassified¶
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