ABSTRACT
In 1992, the state of Washington's Corrections Center for Women (WCCW), which housed about 270 convicted women felons, implemented a random search policy in an effort to efficiently and effectively control the movement of contraband through the facility. The inmates argued that the search policy violated their First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Since 1946, federal administration has been deliberately regulated by an expanding administrative law framework intended to make it more compatible with the nation's constitutional democracy. The Constitution makes few provisions for large-scale federal administration, the development of which necessarily altered the separation of powers. Studies show that judicial intervention in public administration can have a wide array of impacts. The courts can and do produce change. Their decisions have affected core administrative matters-accountability; decision making; authority; organization; personnel; budgets; program, problem, and policy definition and responsibility; feedback; and intergovernmental relations.
