Some sergeants and guards didn’t do the strip searches; they didn’t have the taste for it. Others acted as if it was their greatest pleasure to humiliate somebody. There were days when I was strip-searched as many six times, before and after I left my cell, even when I was only leaving my cell to walk to the guard booth—escorted and always within sight of at least one guard—to take a phone call from my lawyer. Having to bend over so a security officer can look at your anus gives you a terrible sense of being violated. It’s one of the most humiliating things that can be done to you. Even the
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