Does a prison policy requiring a visual strip and body cavity search every time administrative segregation prisoners leave their cells violate the Fourth Amendment?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Uhuru v. Eldridge, No. 2:19-cv-1119 KJN P (E.D. Cal. 2020):
v. Sumner, 860 F.2d 328, 333-34 (9th Cir. 1988) (held that routine visual body cavity searches conducted in hallways did not violate the Fourth Amendment after situations where inmates had been presented with the opportunity to obtain contraband or a weapon); Rickman v. Avaniti, 854 F.2d 327 (9th Cir. 1988) (upheld prison policy requiring visual strip and body cavity searches every time administrative segregation prisoners left their cells).
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