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fromScary Mommy
2 days ago

State Prisons Are Turning Away Women After Scanners Pick Up Tampons

"Women were turned away after traveling to see their incarcerated loved ones and barred from future visits for six months or even indefinitely - all because they were on their period," a post from the NYCLU's Instagram page reads. "This is a clear act of sex discrimination. The Department of Corrections and Community Supervision must restore these women's visitation rights and change screening procedures immediately to accommodate the basic fact that some visitors will be menstruating."
Social justice
San Francisco
fromMission Local
1 month ago

For attorney visits in S.F. jails: Goodbye strip searches, hello body scans

After attorney visits, San Francisco sheriff's deputies replaced routine strip-searches with body scanners to reduce contraband and address due-process and trauma concerns.
fromMail Online
5 months ago

Woman's crotch got her stopped at airport security

Perspiration is probably the weirdest thing that can set off the scanners. It has to do with millimetre wave technology and how the waves bounce off water.
Travel
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