Ninth Circuit· 2/25/1993

Jordan v. Gardner

Citations

986 F.2d 1521
93 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 1354
1993 U.S. App. LEXIS 3065
1993 WL 46630

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holding that the deliberate indifference standard applied to plaintiffs’ claim that having male guards conduct random body searches of female prisoners inflicted psychological pain in violation of the Eighth Amendment
finding 3 cross-gender body search policy constituted unnecessary “infliction of pain” under the Eighth 4 Amendment where women inmates had “shocking histories of verbal, physical, and, in particular, 5 sexual abuse” by men
rejecting application of Turner analysis in context of Eighth Amendment claim
“After incarceration, only the unnecessary and wanton infliction of pain constitutes cruel and unusual punishment forbidden by the Eighth Amendment.”
prison policy requiring male guards to 19 conduct body searches on female prisoners violated Eighth Amendment
“In keeping with the tradition of 5 not revealing names of the victims of sexual assault, we use initials here to protect the privacy of 6 the inmates.”

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Judges: Wallace, Poole, Canby, Reinhardt, Hall, Wiggins, Noonan, O'Scannlain, Leavy, Trott, Kleinfeld

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