Forced strip searches in Minnesota prisons continue despite zero tolerance claims. Advocates and survivors say the degrading practice must end and call for body scanners and accountability.
Shavelle Chavez-Nelson
Posted inOpinion
​Strip searches are sexual assaults by the state
In Minnesota’s prisons, strip searches of men are a form of sexualized abuse that can cause psychological and physiological harm, and are a form of state-sanctioned sexual assault.
Posted inOpinion
Do Minnesotans condone the enslavement of human beings?Â
Minnesota’s Constitution declares slavery and involuntary servitude legal as a punishment for a crime, and the state’s prisons are a violent, dehumanizing, and coercive slave labor.