United States First Circuit

Rhode Island Department of Corrections policies providing that all males committed to the state prison be subject to a strip search and a visual body cavity search are unreasonable and therefore unconstitutional.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/13/2001
• Published 02/13/2001

Judges

• TORRUELLA, Chief Judge., Before TORRUELLA, Chief Judge, BOWNES, Senior Circuit Judge, and SARIS, District Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Rebecca Tedford Partington, Assistant Attorney General, with whom Sheldon Whitehouse, Attorney General, was on brief, for appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gregory A. Bölzle, with whom Brown, Todd & Heyburn, PLLC and Thomas W. Kelly, were on brief, for appellee.