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Rhode Island Prison Strip Searches Struck Down

The Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has held that two Rhode Island Department of Corrections (RIDOC) policies routinely subjecting all males committed to the state prison to strip searches and visual body cavity searches are not reasonable under Bell v Wolfish , 441 U.S. 520, 559 (1979). This ...

 

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