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Lack of Shower/Bathroom Curtains Violate Privacy
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1993, page 9
Douglas Arey is a Maryland State prisoner. While at a recently built pre release center he complained that the lack of shower curtains and bathroom partitions, which allowed female guards to observe his genitals, violated his right to privacy. Prison officials took no corrective action.
Filed under:
Sexual Harassment,
Staff-Prisoner Harassment,
Gender Discrimination -- Men,
Notice of Rules,
Showers,
Toilets,
Qualified Immunity.
Location:
Maryland.
While Arey was using the …
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