Diaz Torres, Maggie Del Socorro v. Torres Ortiz, Francisca

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• holding that regular strip searching of inmates based on prison security procedures did not violate Fourth or Eighth Amendments
• noting that 83% of inmates confined to the facility “were serving maximum sentences of more than 10 years”
• noting that the record demonstrated a lengthy history of contraband problems in the institution
• emphasizing the relative security needs of the institution, noting that the institution before it was a maximum security facility
• upholding constitutionality of post-contact-visit strip policy as applied to a plaintiff in a special security area — “a prison within a prison” — designed to hold the most dangerous inmates
• strip searches before and after intraprison transfers upheld despite fact that inmates were shackled and accompanied by guards

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).