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120Body searches—rules about touching detainee
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120 Body searches—rules about touching detainee
The doctor conducting the body search of a detainee, and the nurse
present at the search, may, for the search, touch the detainee and
examine the detainee’s orifices and cavities, but only if the doctor or
nurse is of the same sex as the detainee.