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Okay for Guards to View Naked Prisoners

Loaded on June 15, 1996 published in Prison Legal News June, 1996, page 9
Filed under: Sexual Harassment, Staff-Prisoner Harassment, Gender Discrimination -- Men, Strip Searches, Staffing, 1964 Civil Rights Act, Employee Litigation. Location: Illinois.
The court of appeals for the seventh circuit held that it is constitutionally permissible for female guards to routinely view naked male prisoners. Albert Johnson, a pretrial detainee in the Cook County (Chicago) jail, filed suit claiming that female guards monitoring male prisoners while they showered, dressed, used the bathroom ...

 

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