Legal Opinion
Ruth Blackburn v. Linwood Snow
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 20, 1985No. 84-1736PublishedCited by 217 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PETTINE, Senior District Judge.
At issue in this case is whether the federal Constitution permits a correctional institution to require that all men, women and children wishing to visit inmates at the institution submit to a strip search before doing so. Ruth Blackburn, the plaintiff-appellee in this case, was required to submit to such a search on three occasions in 1977 when she sought to visit her brother at the Plymouth County Jail. The searches were conducted pursuant to an order issued by then-County Sheriff Linwood Snow, one of the defendant-appellants here, which mandated that all…
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