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... > social science subjects > politics and international relations > political science > American politics and society > Fourth Amendment > Fourth Amendment issues > prisoners and the Fourth Amendment

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prisoners and the Fourth Amendment  

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  • Prisoners do not possess many Fourth Amendment rights at all when they enter confinement. The U.S. Supreme Court has made clear in several decisions that the expectations of privacy diminish drastically for those who are institutionally confined. [Source: Encyclopedia of the Fourth Amendment; Prisoners and the Fourth Amendment]

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