ARRUDA v. FAIR

No. 82-1827.

710 F.2d 886 (1983)

Paulo ARRUDA, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Michael V. FAIR, Etc., et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 29, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David S. Godkin, Boston, Mass., with whom Robert D. Keefe, Merriann M. Panarella, and Hale & Dorr, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for plaintiff, appellant.

Michael C. Donahue, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., with whom Sheridan, Garrahan & Lander, Framingham, Mass., was on brief, for defendants, appellees.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, BREYER, Circuit Judge, and MALETZ, Senior Judge.


BREYER, Circuit Judge.

The appellant, Paulo Arruda, is an inmate in a special maximum security unit within MCI-Walpole, a Massachusetts maximum security prison. He challenges the prison's policy of strip-searching inmates of the security unit in two particular instances: when they enter or leave the unit on their way to or from the prison law library and infirmary, and after they receive visitors in the unit's visiting rooms. After conducting an extensive hearing...

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