×
You've used up your 3 free articles for this month. Subscribe today.
Outside Strip Search Constitutes Excessive Force
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1992
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1992, page 4
Michael Cornwell is an Ohio state prisoner. In February, 1987, while in prison in Mansfield, he participated in a sit down strike with 76 other prisoners protesting a cutback in recreation time. Dahlberg, the prison warden, ordered guards to use force to terminate the peaceful strike. After firing warning shots …
Filed under:
Discrimination,
Gender Discrimination -- Men,
Prison Rebellion,
Strip Searches,
Eighth Amendment,
Exposure to Cold,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Damages,
Jury Instructions.
Location:
Ohio.
Full article and associated cases available to subscribers.
As a digital subscriber to Prison Legal News, you can access full text and downloads for this and other premium content.
Already a subscriber? Login
More from this issue:
- Challenging Prison Censorship, by Paul Wright
- Five Boot Camp Guards Fired
- Waupun Law Library Declared Unconstitutional, by Adrian Lomax
- Wash. DOC Given $15 Million
- Cell Searches States Claim
- Disciplinary Hearing Must Rely on Preponderance of Evidence
- Guard Liable for Not Stopping Beating by Other Guards
- Outside Strip Search Constitutes Excessive Force
- From The Editor, by Paul Wright
- Prisoner Entitled to Receive Medication
- Habeas Corpus Book
- Prisoner Rights Directory
- Killer Cops Whine About "Cop Killer", by Paul Wright
- Guard Killed - MANCI Madness, by John Perotti
- Uprising at Military Prison, by Carolyn Dock
- State Must Store Excess Property
- Prisoner Fined for Frivolous Suit
- Cons Entitled to Minimum Wage, by Adrian Lomax
- Telephone Announcements Halted
- Illinois Facing Prison Crisis
- Tom Manning Moved to Marion
- Seeking Jailhouse Lawyers?, by Gerald Mose
More from these topics:
- Eighth Circuit Revives § 1983 Complaint Alleging Jail Detainees’ Death from Stroke was Due to Deliberate Indifference and Failure to Train, July 1, 2026. Systemic Medical Neglect, Failure to Treat, Eighth Amendment, Failure to Train/Supervise, Deliberate Indifference.
- Alabama Barred from Executing Prisoner by Nitrogen Hypoxia, July 1, 2026. Totality of Conditions, Eighth Amendment, Death Penalty, Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Wrongful Use of Force.
- North Texas Prison Evacuated After Carbon Monoxide Leak, July 1, 2026. Toxic Fumes/Chemicals, Eighth Amendment, Exposure to Cold, Water, Exposure to Heat.
- Louisiana Republicans Eliminate Elected Office Won by Exonerated Ex-Prisoner, July 1, 2026. Discrimination, Constitutional Challenges/Law, Public Trial, Civil Rights Actions or Offenses/Bivens Actions, Fair Trial.
- Oklahoma Jail Closes After $2.55 Million Payout for Retaliatory Strip Search, July 1, 2026. Retaliation, Strip Searches, Monell Liability, Wrongful Use of Force, Suspicionless Searches.
- CoreCivic’s Long Record of Abuse and Neglect in Tennessee, June 1, 2026. Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Systemic Medical Neglect, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Medical Neglect/Malpractice.
- Warden, Four Other Louisiana Jailers Indicted for Brutalizing Compliant Detainees with Riot Shield, June 1, 2026. Guard Misconduct, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Stun Guns/Tasers, Pepper Spray/Tear Gas, Wrongful Use of Force.
- $112,500 Paid to Former New Mexico Prisoner Denied Public Records of Excessive Force by Guards, June 1, 2026. DOC/BOP misconduct, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Settlements, Public Records Act, False Imprisonment.
- $75,000 for Pennsylvania Prisoner’s Excessive Force Claim Against Jail Guard, June 1, 2026. Failure to Treat, Guard Brutality/Beatings, 42 U.S. Code § 1983, civil action for deprivation of rights, Monell Liability, Wrongful Use of Force.
- Two More Guards Face Prison Time for Messiah Nantwi Killing, June 1, 2026. Guard Misconduct, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Sentencing, Excessive Force (Wrongful Death), Plea Agreements/Guilty Pleas.