· 2/13/2003
Tyrone Calhoun v. George E. Detella
Citations
- 319 F.3d 936
- 2003 U.S. App. LEXIS 2694
- 2003 WL 297785
How courts have described this case
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- holding that otherwise lawful strip-search becomes unconstitutional if conducted in manner intended to humiliate and cause psychological pain
- holding that male prisoner stated an Eighth Amendment claim when he alleged that corrections officers \forced him to perform sexually provocative acts\ during a strip search conducted in the presence of female guards
- holding that a plaintiff states a claim on allegations strip search conducted in harassing manner intended to humiliate and inflict psychological pain
- holding that an officer who conducts a strip search in a manner designed to demean and humiliate a prisoner violates the Constitution
- holding that a strip search will violate the Eighth Amendment only if it is “totally without penological justification” or “conducted in a harassing manner intended to humiliate and inflict psychological pain”
- holding that a strip search will violate the Eighth Amendment only if it is “totally without penological justification” or “conducted in a harassing manner intended to humiliate and inflict psychological pain”
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Judges: Ripple, Rovner, Evans
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