Are detainees strip searched? A. Is the search conducted in privacy?The individual plaintiff was subjected to a strip and body cavity search on his voluntary admission to a civilian mental hospital pursuant to a standing order. Avoid Lake Behavioral and its sister Hospital Chicago Behavioral. Look at Northwestern, Rush pretty much the best in the area. Ordinarily the search is done while respecting an individual's privacy. Clothing is searched. Practice medicine in all of its branches in the State of Illinois. A mental health facility is a hospital or other place that treats people with mental illnesses. All three plaintiffs were strip searched at the jail following their arrest on what turned out to be erroneous failure to appear warrants.