JACKSON v. DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS


762 A.2d 255 (2000)

335 N.J. Super. 227

Kevin JACKSON, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Defendant-Respondent.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided November 28, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Appellant submitted a pro se brief.

John J. Farmer, Jr., Attorney General, attorney for respondent (Michael J. Haas, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel; Todd J. Schwartz, Deputy Attorney General, on the brief).

Before Judges BAIME, WALLACE, Jr., and CARCHMAN.


The opinion of the court was delivered by BAIME, P.J.A.D.

In response to escalating drug traffic in New Jersey prisons, the Department of Corrections (DOC) adopted a policy subjecting visitors to searches using Ion Scan machines and passive canine units. Kevin Jackson, an inmate, attacks the constitutionality of the recently adopted policy. We discern no violation of the prisoners' constitutional rights.

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