· 8/10/1982
Floyd E. Cumbey v. Larry Meachum, Director, Gary Maynard, Warden, and Sharon Hartless
Citations
- 684 F.2d 712
- 1982 U.S. App. LEXIS 16723
How courts have described this case
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- finding plausible constitutional claim when plaintiff alleged naked male inmates were subjected to “a certain amount of viewing” by female officers
- An inmate’s limited right to privacy may be violated where prison officials regularly watch inmates of the opposite sex shower
- “Although the inmates’ right to privacy must yield to the penal institution’s need to maintain security, it does not vanish altogether.”
- strip searches viewed by guards of opposite sex implicates right to privacy
- male inmate challenging female guards viewing the strip search of a male detainee
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Judges: Barrett, Holloway, Logan, Per Curiam
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