The nude airport scanners? Still alive and doing well....

[thewayne]

in prisons. Too invasive for public use, but prisons have a different set of rules. There will still be a need for cavity searches, but this could speed things up.

It seems to me that it will require either additional training for the guards, who are reportedly overworked as-is, or bringing in additional people to work the scanners, which makes for additional weak spots in the security perimeter. The article doesn't specify if they're going to government-run facilities or also privately-run prisons, it also doesn't address the issue of ionizing radiation. But they're no longer in airports, which makes it a win for the traveling public and we'll just happily ignore any rights that prisoners have since so many of their rights are suspended once they're convicted.

http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20140516/DHS/305160012/Guess-where-TSA-s-invasive-scanners-now-

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[silveradept]

Since, you know, prisons are model facilities where the difficult work of rehabilitating convicted criminals happens, so clearly that works better if the prisoners have no right or expectation of humane treatment. After all, you don't want to defend those socially undesirable people, now do you?