Today the ACLU and ACLU of Colorado called upon the Colorado Department of Corrections to abandon a new policy that subjects prisoners to degrading body cavity searches.

This lawsuit challenges a new policy of the Boulder County Jail that forbids prisoners to send letters and instead restricts their outgoing correspondence to postcards supplied by the jail.

Before conducting a consensual search of a car or a pedestrian, the bill requires a peace officer to inform the person that he or she has the right to say No to the officer's request to perform a search.