>>I certainly get the argument against the search. That said :
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>>Fellow is arrested for unpaid parking tickets, whatever. No reason to think he concealing a dangerous weapon. He is put in the tank with other people. He kills someone with a razorblade he has taped to his thigh.
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>>Is there legal liability on the part of the jail for putting those other prisoners in a potentially dangerous environment with exercising due diligence?
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>>And if not, why?
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>:-}
>I guess that hinges on an acceptable definition of due diligence. How many people have been arrested for non-payment of a parking ticket and, on the off-chance that that might happen, have taped a razor blade to their thigh in case they had an opportunity to kill another prisoner?
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It would certainly be my first thought. You can't be too careful ;-)

I bet they wouldn't find my concealed shiv. Oh wait....