Legal Opinion
Roberts v. State of Rhode Islan
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 13, 2001No. 00-1752PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TORRUELLA, Chief Judge.
Two Rhode Island Department of Corrections (“DOC”) policies provide that all males committed to the state prison be subject to a strip search and a visual body cavity search 1 upon incarceration as a matter of routine procedure. Appellee Craig Roberts challenged these policies as unconstitutional. The district court agreed that the policies were unconstitutional, holding that this Court’s decision in Swain v. Spinney, 117 F.3d 1 (1st Cir.1997), required that corrections officers have a reasonable suspicion that an individual was concealing contraband prior to conducting…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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- Mary Beth G. v. City of ChicagoCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1983
- Swain v. SpinneyCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1997
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