May v. Trancoso
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
Aaron May, an inmate at Dixon Correctional Center serving a 50-year sentence for murder and a 15-year sentence for aggravated kidnaping, appeals the district court’s judgment in his suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. He maintains that prison officials violated his constitutional rights by strip searching him in front of female visitors, retaliating against him for protesting the search, subjecting him to a degrading drug test, and deliberately ignoring his shoulder injury. Because May provided sufficient evidence to show that guards strip searched him to humiliate him, we vacate the grant of…
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