Kuwait Court of Cassation principle number 396

Searching a prisoner upon his entry into prison. Its scope and basis. Law 26/1962 regulating prisons. Its lack of a provision permitting the search of a prisoner after his entry into prison and outside the circumstances and pursuant to the general provisions of the Criminal Procedures Law, which permit arrest and search only in a state of flagrante delicto and in the exhaustively specified cases. An example concerning a judgment's conclusion that a prisoner's search was unlawful owing to the absence of a state of flagrante delicto.