Legal Opinion
Jess Burgess and Marilyn Thompkins v. Louis Lowery
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 24, 2000No. 98-3567PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
The plaintiffs, respectively the father and wife of inmates on death row in an Illinois prison, brought suit in federal district court against prison officials who forced each of the plaintiffs to submit to a strip search as a condition of being permitted to visit the inmate. Illinois prison regulations authorize strip searches of visitors only if the visitor consents and there is reasonable suspicion that he is carrying contraband. 20 Ill. Adm. Code § 501.220(a)(3). The regulations apply indifferently to visitors to death-row inmates and to visitors to other inmates. The…
2Cases cited32 opinions
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