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When Karla Padilla started her sentence at the federal correctional institution in Dublin, Calif., in 2023<\/span>, a\u00a0guard singled her out. Over the next 15<\/span> months, the guard strip-searched Padilla so frequently that anyone near her risked being searched too, and other inmates began keeping their distance whenever that guard was on\u00a0shift.<\/p>

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Most prisons across the country conduct strip searches under a\u00a0federal policy that requires women officers to inspect incarcerated women. The officer instructs them to remove their clothes, shake their hair, open their mouths, lift their breasts or genital area and then bend, squat and\u00a0cough.<\/p>\n

On one particularly cold day in November 2023<\/span>, while Padilla was cleaning the chapel, the guard demanded that Padilla strip for a\u00a0search in full view of four male guards stationed\u00a0there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201c<\/span>I told her I\u00a0was on my period,\u201d Padilla recalls. \u200b\u201c<\/span>And she said, \u200b\u2018<\/span>Shut the fuck up and strip down. Do what I\u00a0say or you\u2019re going to go to the SHU.\u2019\u201d The SHU\u2009\u2014\u2009the Security Housing Unit\u2009\u2014\u2009is more commonly known as solitary\u00a0confinement.<\/p>\n

Padilla removed her clothes and menstrual pad, standing naked in front of male guards for five minutes, as the guard made her turn, squat and cough, then repeat three more\u00a0times.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>She had a\u00a0smirk on her face,\u201d Padilla says. \u200b\u201c<\/span>She knew what was going on. She knew all these people were watching. She knew it was very\u00a0humiliating.\u201d<\/p>\n

Throughout her 15<\/span> months at the facility, Padilla says she came to realize that such humiliations were unavoidable. Before the chapel incident, when she refused a\u00a0guard\u2019s demand to strip, she was thrown into solitary confinement and underwent several more strip searches before being returned to her\u00a0cell.<\/p>\n

Padilla left Dublin on Feb. 20<\/span>,\u00a02024<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Again and again, advocates pushing to restrict or abolish strip searches run into the same institutional logic: Where there are prisons, there will always be strip searches. Organizers and activists have achieved some wins, but since strip searches are considered security-essential, more substantive reforms keep hitting a\u00a0wall.<\/p>\n

But strip searches, framed as a\u00a0security measure, have also been used as a\u00a0tool of\u00a0abuse.<\/p>\n

Aimee Chavira was transferred to Dublin in 2019<\/span> after spending time in an immigration detention\u00a0center.<\/p>\n

She remembers when the searches weren\u2019t even dressed up as security protocol\u2009\u2014\u2009they were just brazen acts of abuse. She recalls an incident in which a\u00a0male guard made sexual advances toward her, which she refused. In response, he would call a\u00a0woman guard to do a\u00a0strip search. \u200b\u201c<\/span>This is not normal behavior,\u201d Chavira says. \u200b\u201c<\/span>It\u2019s kind of hard to do a\u00a0sentence. You\u2019re thinking to yourself, I\u2019m sentenced to 10<\/span>\u00a0years in prison. How am I\u00a0going to maintain my sanity for these 10<\/span>\u00a0years with this kind of abuse, sexual\u00a0assault?\u201d<\/p>\n

The searches left her with a\u00a0lasting aversion to physical touch. \u200b\u201c<\/span>There\u2019s no fix,\u201d Chavira says. \u200b\u201c<\/span>These are traumas that I\u2019m going to continue to have throughout the rest of my life. When I\u00a0go to an airport, I\u00a0can\u2019t have people touch my arm, I\u00a0feel uncomfortable, you can\u2019t hug me, I\u00a0can\u2019t feel your hands on me. In my mind, I\u00a0am thinking you are doing it in a\u00a0sexual way. So that doesn\u2019t go away. This is a\u00a0trauma that they are creating and that they\u2019re gonna leave a\u00a0stamp on you\u00a0forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prisoners and workers have called the prison \u200b\u201c<\/span>the rape club,\u201d the Associated Press reported in 2022<\/span>. After years of complaints alleging rampant sexual abuse and human rights violations, eight women in August 2023<\/span> filed a\u00a0class action lawsuit against the prison and its staff. It ceased operations in April 2024<\/span>. In These Times<\/em> reached out to the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the District of Montana, which represented Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Dublin in the litigation due to a\u00a0conflict of interest among Northern California federal prosecutors, for comment. A\u00a0spokesperson responded, \u200b\u201c<\/span>Our office cannot comment on matters in active\u00a0litigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>This is where people tried to commit suicide over the acts that the officers were doing,\u201d Chavira says. \u200b\u201c<\/span>You have sexual assault, rape, abuse, so much abuse of the women who were there. We just got it shut\u00a0down.\u201d<\/p>\n

Susan Beaty, senior attorney at the California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice, was one of the attorneys who represented the women. Beaty heard many stories about abuse, sexual harassment, sexual assault and strip\u00a0searches.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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People enter the California City Immigration Processing Center, one of the state\u2019s largest ICE detention centers, on March 25, in California City, Calif. An incarcerated woman told In These Times she has experienced invasive strip searches and sexual harassment while at the prison. PHOTO BY DAVID MCNEW\/GETTY IMAGES<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201c<\/span>I\u2019ve been going there for many years,\u201d Beaty says. \u200b\u201c<\/span>And never once had the facility strip-searched someone before or after they spoke with me. After we brought the lawsuit and were in front of the judge, they very suddenly started strip-searching every person who met with attorneys before and after their visits. Which felt like both an attempt to intimidate people from speaking out, from accessing lawyers and advocates and a\u00a0punishment for anyone who did speak\u00a0out.\u201d<\/p>\n

The case reached a\u00a0settlement in 2025<\/span>, when a\u00a0federal judge approved a\u00a0consent decree that applies to more than a\u00a0dozen federal women\u2019s prisons across the country. It instituted enforceable protections, such as more extensive monitoring of potential abuses and reporting systems, and expunged some disciplinary write-ups by Dublin\u00a0staff.<\/p>\n

As part of the final decision, the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) director issued a\u00a0public acknowledgement to women who experienced sexual abuse at FCI\u00a0Dublin.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>For the first time in BOP history, a\u00a0consent decree will provide ongoing court oversight across multiple federal women\u2019s prisons,\u201d said Beaty in a\u00a0press release. \u200b\u201c<\/span>This agreement acknowledges that the abuses at FCI Dublin were not isolated incidents but part of a\u00a0nationwide pattern of\u00a0harm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Approximately a\u00a0year after the closure, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began touring the facility. Many advocates, attorneys and formerly incarcerated women, like Padilla and Chavira, fear the Trump administration is planning to reopen Dublin and turn it into an ICE detention\u00a0center.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>We know what\u2019s going to happen if they reopen it,\u201d Padilla\u00a0says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Alyssa Benedict is the executive director at CORE Associates and co-founder of Women\u2019s Justice Institute, an organization dedicated to trauma-informed justice in women\u2019s prisons. Benedict has spent 25<\/span>\u00a0years training prison officials on trauma-informed approaches, starting with juvenile facilities before shifting her focus to adult women\u2019s\u00a0prisons.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>If we are only brought in to train,\u201d Benedict says, \u200b\u201c<\/span>we find that there is a\u00a0real lack of knowledge of research on\u00a0women.\u201d<\/p>\n

What does exist paints a\u00a0troubling picture. At least half of women in prison have experienced gender-based violence. Research shows that strip searches can trigger reminders of past sexual abuse. \u200b\u201c<\/span>The body is so shocked with what\u2019s happening,\u201d Benedict says, \u200b\u201c<\/span>that women are experiencing a\u00a0number of physical reactions\u2009\u2014\u2009deep-seated fear, heaviness in the chest, elevated heart rate and sweats. It\u2019s everything that she might have experienced when she was sexually\u00a0assaulted.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some scholars, like Jessica Hutchison, a\u00a0social work professor at Canada\u2019s Wilfrid Laurier University who has studied the harmful effects of strip searches on incarcerated women, have described strip searches as state-sponsored sexual\u00a0assault.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>If we replace the words \u200b\u2018<\/span>strip searching\u2019 with the words \u200b\u2018<\/span>sexual violence,\u2019 the nuance and actuality of what happens comes to light,\u201d Hutchison says. \u200b\u201c<\/span>Imagine if we say, \u200b\u2018<\/span>Katie went out to the community, and when she went back to the prison, she had to be strip-searched.\u2019 That evokes one image in our mind. But if we say, \u200b\u2018<\/span>Katie went out to the community and when she got back to the prison, she had to be sexually assaulted,\u2019 that\u2019s a\u00a0different visual.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Emily Galvin Almanza, executive director at Partners for Justice and author of The Price of Mercy: Unfair Trials, a\u00a0Violent System, and a\u00a0Public Defender\u2019s Search for Justice in America<\/em>, notes the discrepancy between how women are often treated while incarcerated and how the legal system treats far less severe instances of sexual misconduct or public\u00a0nudity.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>On the one hand, our government says peeing on a\u00a0bush is sexually dangerous, slapping a\u00a0butt is sexually dangerous,\u201d she says. \u200b\u201c<\/span>And on the other hand, it says that shackling a\u00a0woman, forcing her to remove all of her clothes, to remove her tampon, to show a\u00a0guard her menstrual pad and have a\u00a0stranger [inspect] her vagina and buttocks is not sexually abusive. It\u2019s not a\u00a0sustainable intellectual\u00a0take.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Benedict, policy changes around strip searches consistently run into institutional resistance. \u200b\u201c<\/span>It\u2019s much easier to make the case,\u201d Benedict says, \u200b\u201c<\/span>let\u2019s train your workforce in how to communicate in a\u00a0trauma-informed way. Changing strip searches, I\u00a0think, inspires a\u00a0lot of concern on the part of facility leaders around contraband and what may come\u00a0in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since the beginning of her career, Benedict has seen more attention paid to the experiences of incarcerated women\u2009\u2014\u2009after decades, she says, of being invisible and ignored. She and her team are now working with prisons and jails to rethink strip-search policies. But progress has been slow. \u200b\u201c<\/span>I\u2019m more likely to hear from states that they\u2019ve tried to make adjustments, but I\u00a0still think there\u2019s not enough places doing it and not enough places doing it completely. There\u2019s more work to be done,\u201d Benedict\u00a0says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jennifer Toon spent 20<\/span>\u00a0years in a\u00a0Texas prison. Strip searches were one of the things she hated most about her time there. \u200b\u201c<\/span>It was the experience, I\u00a0would say, that united all of us in our hatred,\u201d Toon says. \u200b\u201c<\/span>I can\u2019t even count how many times I\u00a0have had to take my clothes off over and over and\u00a0over.\u201d<\/p>\n

Toon remembers strip searches that were conducted in view of guards who would comment about their bodies or odor or scream at them to take their clothes off. Toon says she worked to schedule her visitation time around her menstrual cycle so she could avoid being strip-searched while on her\u00a0period.<\/p>\n

In These Times <\/em>interviewed 11<\/span> currently or formerly incarcerated women who each described how traumatizing it is to be strip-searched while menstruating. Many recalled being ordered to remove their pads or tampons. One woman reported that when she bled onto the floor during a\u00a0search, she was told to clean it\u00a0up.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Being forced to remove your menstrual devices\u2014 it\u2019s not just humiliating and traumatizing, but physically painful,\u201d says Galvin Almanza. \u200b\u201c<\/span>Removing a\u00a0dry, recently inserted tampon can be painful and even dangerous if pieces of it break apart in the\u00a0process.\u201d<\/p>\n

The experience is so traumatizing that some incarcerated people have tried to suppress their periods altogether. \u200b\u201c<\/span>One woman in my study said that she started taking [birth control] \u2026 because it stopped her period,\u201d Hutchison\u00a0says.<\/p>\n

But menstrual products can be difficult to access in U.S. prisons. Women forced to remove pads or tampons for a\u00a0strip search may struggle to find a\u00a0replacement.<\/p>\n

Toon left the Texas prison on Dec. 13<\/span>, 2018<\/span>. When she was released, she began writing about her experience there. A\u00a0year and a\u00a0half later, she got a\u00a0fellowship at the Coalition of Texans with Disabilities, which jump-started her activism and policy work. When Melissa Lucio\u2009\u2014\u2009a woman Toon and many of her friends knew personally, some from the same unit\u2014 faced execution in 2022<\/span>, Toon and a\u00a0group of formerly incarcerated women formed Lioness Justice Impacted Women\u2019s Alliance to advocate for incarcerated women in Texas. Lucio\u2019s execution was stayed in 2022<\/span>, and a\u00a0district court judge later declared her innocent\u2009\u2014\u2009but as of 2026<\/span>, she remains on death row, awaiting a\u00a0final ruling from the Texas Court of Criminal\u00a0Appeals.<\/p>\n

Lioness now organizes around solitary confinement, the lack of air conditioning in Texas prisons and strip\u00a0searches.<\/p>\n

When the organization learned that a\u00a0bill addressing strip searches during medical transports was moving through the Texas Legislature, Toon and a\u00a0group of formerly incarcerated women approached Sen. Royce West (D-Texas) in 2023<\/span> to discuss the policy. \u200b\u201c<\/span>I was told to \u200b\u2018<\/span>lean back and skin it back till it was pink,\u2019 Toon\u2019s friend testified during a\u00a0legislative hearing in March 2023<\/span>. \u200b\u201c<\/span>That meant fully opening my vagina. That is the type of strip searches that we endure on medical\u00a0transport.\u201d<\/p>\n

In February 2023<\/span>, during the 88<\/span>th<\/sup> Texas legislative session, West filed Senate Bill 1146<\/span> to reform stripsearch practices specifically during medical transports. The bill prohibits ankle, leg and waist restraints and invasive body cavity searches during those transports, and allows incarcerated women to bring toilet paper and feminine hygiene\u00a0products.<\/p>\n

The medical transport bill moved quickly through the legislature; it received minimal opposition and was signed into law on June 18<\/span>,\u00a02023<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201c<\/span>A piece of legislation is great, but we don\u2019t have any independent oversight of our prison system,\u201d says Toon. \u200b\u201c<\/span>The only way we know something is happening is from people on the inside, or the state agency reporting on themselves. We don\u2019t have anybody making sure a\u00a0bill is actually being enforced. This is why we still have trouble with medical transport, because while it passed and it said they need to do certain things, unless advocates stay on top of the bill, who is enforcing\u00a0it?\u201d<\/p>\n

A second bill, introduced in 2025<\/span> during the 89<\/span>th<\/sup> legislative session, sought to overhaul strip-search policy more broadly\u2009\u2014\u2009and proved far harder to move. At the end of the session, advocates testified at a\u00a0hearing on the bill. Officials from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice attended and, according to Toon, began making some internal adjustments: They dropped the term \u200b\u201c<\/span>strip search\u201d in favor of \u200b\u201c<\/span>unclothed search,\u201d and ended the practice of group strip searches, which the bill had specifically targeted. But the bill itself did not pass. The core requirement\u2009\u2014\u2009that incarcerated people remove all their clothing for a\u00a0search\u2009\u2014\u2009remains policy in Texas\u00a0prisons.<\/p>\n

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice confirmed the policy\u00a0changes.<\/p>\n

The expressed purpose of strip searches is to combat the flow of contraband into prisons, but data from the few states that track searches suggest the practice rarely achieves that goal. Public records obtained by In These Times<\/em> from state corrections departments in Arizona and Washington found that strip searches turned up only a\u00a0handful of contraband items. Of the 8<\/span>,344<\/span> strip searches conducted in women\u2019s prisons in Washington from 2022<\/span> to 2024<\/span>, the state labeled just 28<\/span> as having resulted in the discovery of contraband items. In Arizona, which provided data from both men\u2019s and women\u2019s facilities, just one search out of 28<\/span>,045<\/span>\u00a0did.<\/p>\n

The term contraband conjures images of drugs, weapons and alcohol, but, as Galvin Almanza points out, it applies to any prohibited item. \u200b\u201c<\/span>It could be mascara. It could be an extra bowl in their cell. It could be pants that have been hemmed into shorts for the\u00a0summer.\u201d<\/p>\n

In These Times <\/em>filed public records requests in 48<\/span> states, asking for the number of strip searches conducted from 2022<\/span> to 2026<\/span>. Seventeen states responded that they didn\u2019t have or track the requested data on strip searches. Thirteen states didn\u2019t respond. North Carolina, Maine and several other states denied the information requests on the grounds the records are confidential. New Jersey public records officers stated, according to law, they don\u2019t have to reveal the requested information because it jeopardizes\u00a0security.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>It\u2019s not surprising,\u201d Benedict says about the lack of data. \u200b\u201c<\/span>Women are a\u00a0very forgotten population. There is a\u00a0lot that we are missing in terms of the experience that women are having in prison. So, to add some accountability so we can track and reduce unnecessary strip searches is\u00a0essential.\u201d<\/p>\n

Omny Miranda Martone, founder and chief executive officer of the Sexual Violence Prevention Association, says the findings mirror research from other countries. A\u00a02026<\/span> Human Rights Law Centre analysis found that fewer than 1<\/span>% of the more than 15<\/span>,000<\/span> strip searches conducted monthly in Australian prisons turned up contraband. \u200b\u201c<\/span>We are causing mass trauma,\u201d Miranda Martone says, \u200b\u201c<\/span>likely increasing sexual violence in prisons, and it\u2019s not effective; it\u2019s not actually preventing contraband. So the reason for doing it is misguided. This is common in state sexual violence. State sexual violence is justified as a\u00a0means for safety even though it\u2019s very clearly\u00a0not.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In the mid-1990<\/span>s, a\u00a0public reckoning over the treatment of incarcerated women swept Canada. For decades, the Prison for Women in Kingston, Ontario, served as Canada\u2019s only federal prison for women, and it was notorious for its overcrowding\u2009\u2014\u2009as well as its frequent use of strip searches and solitary\u00a0confinement.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Nobody believed that all this stuff happened to us,\u201d says Bobbie Roberta Kidd, who was incarcerated at the facility from 1985<\/span> to 1994<\/span>. \u200b\u201c<\/span>Some of us got beat up badly, got touched; you got hosed down.\u201d The abuse of the conditions, she says, made \u200b\u201c<\/span>women want to kill\u00a0themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Between December 1988<\/span> and the spring of 1992<\/span>, seven women at the Prison for Women facility committed suicide. Criminologist Alison Liebling\u2019s 1992<\/span> book Suicides in Prison<\/em> cites research finding that Canadian prison suicide rates in the early 1980<\/span>s were roughly five times higher than in the general population. Liebling also reported that Correctional Service Canada recorded 160<\/span> suicides per 100<\/span>,000<\/span> inmate-years in maximum security institutions, and 90<\/span> per 100<\/span>,000<\/span> across maximum and medium security\u00a0combined.<\/p>\n

On April 22<\/span>, 1994<\/span>, a\u00a0group of incarcerated women were involved in a\u00a0violent confrontation during which two prison guards were stabbed. The women were placed in solitary confinement, where tensions continued to rapidly escalate. On April 26<\/span>, the prison warden directed an all-male team of guards to conduct a\u00a0cell extraction and strip search of the women in solitary confinement. The guards, equipped with black armor, helmets and plastic shields, forced the women to lie on the ground, threatened to mace them and cut their clothes off with\u00a0scissors.<\/p>\n

The operation was captured on prison security footage, which was first sent to the Solicitor General of Ontario and led to a\u00a0commission of inquiry. The video would later gain public attention and outrage after the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation\u2019s investigative show The Fifth Estate aired a\u00a0documentary called \u200b\u201c<\/span>The Ultimate\u00a0Response.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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According to the commission\u2019s report describing the video footage\u2009\u2014\u2009which In These Times<\/em> was not able to access\u2009\u2014\u2009a group of eight guards pinned a\u00a0woman to the floor, cut off her clothes, cuffed her hands behind her back and shackled her\u00a0legs.<\/p>\n

The inquiry concluded with a\u00a0list of recommendations to make strip searches more humane, including a\u00a0policy that only women officers be allowed to stripsearch incarcerated women. To this day, the United States has no national policy requiring that only female guards conduct strip searches of incarcerated women. Some jurisdictions have their own such policies, but this varies from state to\u00a0state.<\/p>\n

Still, Hutchison argues the Canadian reform didn\u2019t go far\u00a0enough.<\/p>\n

Despite finding that the strip searches were cruel, inhumane and degrading\u2009\u2014\u2009and that they violated the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms\u2009\u2014\u2009Justice Louise Arbour, who led the investigation, stopped short. \u200b\u201c<\/span>Surprisingly,\u201d Hutchison says, \u200b\u201c<\/span>she did not recommend the elimination of strip\u00a0searches.\u201d<\/p>

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The Prison for Women shut down in 2000<\/span>.\u00a0A\u00a0year later, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in R\u00a0v. Golden that strip searches in women\u2019s jails should not be routine policy and developed legal standards on determining whether there are \u200b\u201c<\/span>reasonable grounds\u201d for strip searches. New federal women\u2019s prisons were established across the country, intended to be run differently\u2009\u2014\u2009though as early as 1995<\/span>, some prisons were already trying a\u00a0different approach.<\/p>\n

In 1995<\/span>, the Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge, a\u00a0federal correctional facility specifically for Indigenous women, was established in Saskatchewan, a\u00a0province in western Canada. It includes spiritual centers, elder-led teachings and ceremonies and a\u00a0horse-riding program. The facility retained strip searches as standard practice\u2009\u2014\u2009even though many of the first women transferred there had been strip-searched at the Prison for Women, some of the very trauma the lodge was meant to\u00a0address.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Me and the women would talk about this while playing cards,\u201d says Jessie Black, an Indigenous woman who was sent to the Lodge in 1995<\/span> and left in 2001<\/span>. \u200b\u201c<\/span>We would be like, \u200b\u2018<\/span>oh the hell with this let\u2019s start a\u00a0riot.\u2019 We were sick of it. It builds up and you feel like shit. Even the women at [the Prison for Women] thought that this would be so different than Kingston and it wasn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

Black says women are the birth givers and that Indigenous teachings carry special significance around menstruation\u2009\u2014\u2009what many Indigenous cultures call \u200b\u201c<\/span>moon\u00a0time.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s why Hutchison considers strip-searching Indigenous women an \u200b\u201c<\/span>added layer of colonialist\u00a0violence.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>When they are being strip-searched on their moon time,\u201d Hutchison says. \u200b\u201c<\/span>That\u2019s another level of spiritual violence that is being enacted against indigenous women. Particularly it\u2019s by the hands of the colonial state, in an institution under the guise of supporting Indigenous\u00a0women.\u201d<\/p>\n

Strip searches \u200b\u201c<\/span>shut you down,\u201d Black says. \u200b\u201c<\/span>It\u2019s just a\u00a0horrible experience, especially when you are there at a\u00a0healing lodge. I\u00a0just didn\u2019t get it, and for the elders to say, \u200b\u2018<\/span>oh it\u2019s okay\u2019\u2009\u2014\u2009they should have known better. Okimaw Ohci Healing Lodge is like a\u00a0community. But yet, you still are so\u00a0barbaric.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2022<\/span>, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association filed a\u00a0lawsuit challenging the excessive use of strip searches in both men\u2019s and women\u2019s prisons\u2009\u2014\u2009a case still working its way through the judicial\u00a0system.<\/p>\n

Kent Elson, a\u00a0lead attorney on this case, has found multiple instances where strip searches are unnecessary because the person is entering a\u00a0space where contraband is not\u00a0accessible.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>There\u2019s four circumstances [where strip searches are unnecessary to use],\u201d Elson says. \u200b\u201c<\/span>One is leaving prison. Another one is prison-to-prison transfers, another one is when you are entering the private family visiting area, and when you are coming in and out of a\u00a0secure area.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 1994<\/span> strip-search incident at the Prison for Women did lead to more substantive changes in how women\u2019s prisons function in Canada. But it didn\u2019t lead to the elimination of the strip-search policy that continues to harm women today. All in the name of\u00a0security.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Edward Aber was the commander of La Plata County Jail in Colorado from 2005<\/span> to 2024<\/span>. Throughout his tenure, he developed a\u00a0reputation for sexual misconduct. In 2024<\/span>, 14<\/span> female employees reported that, for years, Aber had been making inappropriate sexual remarks and advances. He was placed on administrative leave in July\u00a02024<\/span>.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>That case led to an investigation,\u201d says Siddhartha H. Rathod, a\u00a0partner at Rathod Mohamedbhai LLC, which represents the plaintiffs. \u200b\u201c<\/span>They found a\u00a0number of screenshots on his computer that looked like screen grabs of strip\u00a0searches.\u201d<\/p>\n

Under jail policy, all deputies must wear a\u00a0bodyworn camera during strip searches; that footage is then automatically uploaded to an evi\u200bdence\u200b.com database accessible only to the sheriff and other select personnel. According to the investigation, led by Lieutenant Joseph LaVenture, from 2019<\/span> to 2024<\/span>, Aber logged into the database at least 3<\/span>,166<\/span> times\u2009\u2014\u2009viewing 115<\/span> strip-search videos from his home and, on at least one occasion, from a\u00a0hotel.<\/p>\n

On September 3<\/span>, 2025<\/span>, 18<\/span> women who were stripsearched in this jail filed a\u00a0lawsuit against\u00a0Aber.<\/p>\n

Rathod says his clients have had panic attacks and trouble sleeping since the allegations became public. \u200b\u201c<\/span>They feel like they can\u2019t exist within their own skin because they know that a\u00a0creepy former jail commander used videos of their strip search to get off,\u201d Rathod\u00a0says.<\/p>\n

The case against Aber has since been consolidated into a\u00a0class action lawsuit, Hiehle v. Aber<\/em>. La Plata County has filed a\u00a0motion to dismiss its liability. Aber also faces more than 100<\/span> criminal charges related to the allegations; his lawyers have requested that the criminal trial, scheduled for November, be moved out of La Plata County, arguing that widespread local coverage of the case makes a\u00a0fair jury pool impossible to find\u00a0there.<\/p>\n

Between January and March 2025<\/span>, the Women\u2019s Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Michigan\u2009\u2014\u2009the only women\u2019s prison in the state\u2009\u2014\u2009required guards to wear body cameras during strip searches. Prison officials claimed that, since cameras are always recording, they feared reprimand for not conducting searches precisely by the\u00a0book.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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During those three months, hundreds of women were allegedly either forced to undergo a\u00a0strip search while being recorded, or were recorded while taking a\u00a0shower or using the bathroom. According to the lawsuit, officers at men\u2019s facilities routinely chose not to wear cameras during strip searches, while officers at the women\u2019s facility strictly enforced the policy\u2009\u2014\u2009creating what plaintiffs describe as \u200b\u201c<\/span>blatant sex\u00a0discrimination.\u201d<\/p>\n

After mounting pressure, MDOC amended the policy in March 2025<\/span>, requiring that cameras be placed in sleep mode during strip searches. But according to a $500<\/span> million lawsuit filed against MDOC in May 2025<\/span> by 20<\/span> women\u2009\u2014\u2009each identified as Jane Doe\u2014 some officers continued recording women in states of undress even after the change. Though the lawsuit was dismissed in October, the women\u2019s attorneys have appealed the\u00a0ruling.<\/p>\n

The Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) did not respond to requests for comment sent to its transparency\u00a0liaison.<\/p>\n

The Michigan lawsuit was part of a\u00a0broader wave of legal and legislative scrutiny. In August 2025<\/span>, Connecticut approved funding for a\u00a0pilot program to introduce body scanners at two prison facilities, with the stated aim of eventually ending strip searches statewide. In Idaho, a\u00a0bill was passed in 2026<\/span> to make it a\u00a0felony for prison staff to engage in sexual contact with incarcerated\u00a0people.<\/p>\n

On May 28<\/span>, Governor Jared Polis of Colorado signed HB26<\/span>–1123<\/span>, a\u00a0law limiting strip searches in state jails and addressing some of the conditions that enabled Aber\u2019s abuse. The law requires that two personnel agree there is reasonable cause before a\u00a0search is conducted and that the reason be documented. It restricts access to strip-search footage to legitimate law enforcement purposes and requires officers to document why they are seeking access. It also prohibits the use of body-worn cameras during strip searches and requires facilities to submit annual reports on the total number of searches conducted, their reasons, and their results to the Colorado Legislature and the attorney\u00a0general.<\/p>\n

That law emerged from a\u00a0lawsuit that is still ongoing. In California, a\u00a0similar lawsuit unfolded in San Francisco. On May 22<\/span>, 2025<\/span>, at least 10<\/span> deputies at the San Francisco County Jail, mostly men, rushed to the unit, removed a\u00a0group of women from their cells and told them to strip. They were then subjected to a\u00a0visual body-cavity search while male deputies watched, laughed and made comments. In late May, 20<\/span> women who had been held in the jail filed a\u00a0federal civil rights class-action lawsuit against the city and county of San Francisco, alleging they had been illegally stripsearched while\u00a0incarcerated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Since the Trump administration took office in January 2025<\/span>, deportations have surged and shuttered prisons\u2009\u2014\u2009some closed due to inhumane conditions\u2009\u2014\u2009have been reopened as immigration detention centers. FCI Dublin may be next. When ICE conducted a\u00a0tour of the facility in February 2025<\/span>, advocates formed a\u00a0coalition to fight its\u00a0reopening.<\/p>\n

The ICE Out of Dublin Coalition unites immigrant rights groups, legal organizations, labor unions and faith communities around the same goal: stopping the Trump administration from turning FCI Dublin into an ICE detention center. For women like Padilla and Chavira, who experienced abuse there firsthand, the stakes are personal. The coalition\u2019s first step was community outreach\u2009\u2014\u2009many residents, they found, were unaware the facility was being considered for use by\u00a0ICE.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>In the spring, the coalition did neighborhood canvassing in Dublin. There was very regular outreach at the farmer\u2019s market,\u201d says Marla Kamiya, an organizer with Tsuru for Solidarity, an organization founded by survivors and descendants of Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II that works to end the expansion of detention centers. From there, the coalition began holding rallies to protest the detention\u00a0center.<\/p>\n

However, they realized they needed more than local pressure alone. They set their sights on getting national attention. First, though, they needed to make headway in state\u00a0government.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>What we landed on is we needed to ensure that our local elected officials were not complicit,\u201d Kamiya says. \u200b\u201c<\/span>We started with the Dublin City Council, and we felt this was a\u00a0really crucial way to engage and involve the local residents of\u00a0Dublin.\u201d<\/p>\n

They mobilized community members to attend two Dublin City Council meetings in November and December 2025<\/span>. Then they met individually with the city manager, the mayor and five council\u00a0members.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>When we felt there was some sympathy for this,\u201d Kamiya says, \u200b\u201c<\/span>we decided we would mobilize people for the public comment period of our November city council meeting. There were well over 40<\/span> Dublin residents who spoke about why they don\u2019t want a\u00a0detention center in their\u00a0city.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In December 2025<\/span>, the Dublin City Council passed a\u00a0resolution opposing the facility\u2019s conversion to an ICE detention\u00a0center.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>After we got the City of Dublin resolution\u2009\u2014\u2009which we felt was really the most important thing\u2009\u2014\u2009we said, let\u2019s try to do a\u00a0similar effort with the Alameda County Board of Supervisors,\u201d Kamiya\u00a0says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In January, Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas of the Alameda County Board of Supervisors introduced two resolutions the coalition had been pushing for: one establishing rapid-response protocols for Alameda County agencies in the event of federal immigration enforcement, and another declaring the county an ICE-free\u00a0zone.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Then we decided we did need a\u00a0resolution specific to Alameda County Board of Supervisors going on record that they don\u2019t want a\u00a0detention center in Dublin,\u201d Kamiya\u00a0says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On April 7<\/span>, in a\u00a0dimly lit room, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors held a\u00a0public meeting to vote on a\u00a0resolution opposing the reopening of FCI Dublin as an ICE detention\u00a0center.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>We are here today to let the federal administration know that we do not want to see any more prisons and specifically detention centers in our community,\u201d says Supervisor Elisa\u00a0M\u00e1rquez.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Alameda residents filled the room. People held signs reading \u200b\u201c<\/span>NO ICE PRISONS.\u201d Nearly 100<\/span> residents spoke out in favor of the resolution. Many expressed fears about how reopening Dublin could lead to increased ICE presence in the community. Some residents have reported seeing ICE in the area. A\u00a0Palestinian organizer spoke about how Palestinian groups deemed by the government as domestic terrorists in the Bay Area could be sent to the\u00a0facility.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The resolution passed\u00a0unanimously.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>We were very happy that it passed,\u201d Kamiya says. \u200b\u201c<\/span>Alameda County Board of Supervisors is a\u00a0really important and powerful leadership body in the region. Having them on record certainly\u00a0helped.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite all these efforts, the decision ultimately rests with the Trump administration\u2009\u2014\u2009FCI Dublin is on federal property and is not subject to local zoning\u00a0laws.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>The Trump administration is aggressively looking to expand detention,\u201d says Beaty. \u200b\u201c<\/span>Specifically in Northern California where there are no detention\u00a0centers.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Congressman Mark DeSaulnier (D-Calif.) represents the Northern California district where the Dublin prison remains. In an email to In These Times<\/em>, a\u00a0spokesperson from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stated that ICE has no plans to use FCI Dublin for immigration detention\u2009\u2014\u2009a claim DeSaulnier remains skeptical of. \u200b\u201c<\/span>Given the congressman\u2019s skepticism of this administration and ICE\u2019s ongoing partnership with [BOP] for immigration detention,\u201d says Mairead Glowacki, communications director for DeSaulnier\u2019s office, \u200b\u201c<\/span>he is doing his due diligence in continuing to press them on this issue to conduct oversight and ensure this doesn\u2019t\u00a0happen.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The same email, however, noted that ICE has new funding to expand detention\u00a0spaces.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>DHS and [BOP] have proven themselves to be extremely untrustworthy agencies that have a\u00a0long record of lying to the public,\u201d Beaty says. \u200b\u201c<\/span>I think the response from community advocates and organizers has been to be always\u00a0vigilant.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A banner reads \u201cStripped on Camera\u201d during a vigil to honor strip search survivors outside of San Francisco County Jail on May 22. The event marked one year since at least 10 prison guards subjected a group of incarcerated women to degrading body cavity searches. PHOTO BY LEA SUZUKI\/SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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In May 2026<\/span>, BOP published its environmental assessment report on FCI Dublin, which confirmed several hazards, such as black mold and a\u00a0failing sewer system. Members of the ICE Out of Dublin Coalition criticized the report, calling it too narrow. The coalition also fears that publishing the environmental assessment clears the bureaucratic hurdles for Dublin to be transferred to the General Services Administration (GSA). NPR reported in late 2025<\/span> that the GSA has formed a\u00a0surge team to help secure space for ICE. The coalition has begun organizing against the transfer of Dublin to the\u00a0GSA.<\/p>\n

In response to In These Times\u2019 <\/em>request for comment, BOP stated that \u200b\u201c<\/span>despite BOP\u2019s unprecedented steps and providing a\u00a0tremendous amount of resources to address culture, recruitment, and retention, aging infrastructure, and, most critically, employee misconduct at FCI Dublin, it was determined that the facility was not meeting expected standards and that the best course of action was to officially close the facility. There are no plans for the facility at this time.\u201d BOP also noted that a $117<\/span> million settlement was paid to 103<\/span> current or former inmates and that it \u200b\u201c<\/span>strongly condemns any sexually abusive behavior.\u201d Immigration concerns, BOP added, should be directed to\u00a0DHS.<\/p>\n

Beaty says immigrant women have always been the most vulnerable people in the prison system because there is no accountability for the\u00a0guards.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>I think strip searches are just one way that prison staff coerce and abuse incarcerated people,\u201d Beaty says. \u200b\u201c<\/span>It\u2019s normalized and a\u00a0routine in the prison context but invasive, humiliating and unthinkable for people outside of a\u00a0prison context to be allowed to do\u00a0this.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked about solutions, many activists, lawyers and formerly and currently incarcerated women largely agree: Strip searches need to be eliminated entirely. But most agree that in practice, some substitute would be needed. Body scanners are the most commonly proposed\u00a0option.<\/p>\n

Recently, the Sexual Violence Prevention Association has organized a\u00a0new campaign to stop strip searches. The aim is to challenge the laws surrounding strip searches and eventually end strip searches altogether within five to 10<\/span>\u00a0years using a\u00a0multi-pronged approach: helping the public recognize strip searches as sexual violence, supporting state legislation limiting or abolishing the practice and opposing bills that would expand it. The campaign\u2019s longer-term aim is to bring the issue to the federal level and change strip-search law\u00a0nationwide.<\/p>\n

Miranda Martone, who is leading the campaign, knows the wall of institutional resistance she and others keep running into. Her response is that even if contraband is found from a\u00a0strip search, it\u2019s still a\u00a0violent act.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>If you are causing a\u00a0bunch of harm in the name of safety, are you really creating safety or are you just causing a\u00a0whole bunch of harm?\u201d Miranda Martone says. \u200b\u201c<\/span>We often explain to people that if your goal is community safety, these strip and cavity searches are not achieving it. Strip searching is sexual violence. It\u2019s the government committing sexual violence against\u00a0people.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jane Houseal contributed research and public records reporting to this investigation. Natalie Jonas contributed legal\u00a0reporting.<\/em><\/p>

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