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PECKHAM v. WISCONSIN DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS

No. 96-1894.

141 F.3d 694 (1998)

Jane PECKHAM, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, Patrick J. Fiedler, Terri Landwehr, Kristine Krenke, and Bradley Gehring, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided April 1, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael B. Nash (argued), Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Richard A. Victor (argued), Office of the Attorney General, Wisconsin Department of Justice, Madison, WI, for Defendants-Appellees except Gehring.

Peter M. Farb (argued), Gabert, Williams & Farb, Appleton, WI, for Defendant-Appellee Gehring.

Before CUDAHY, EASTERBROOK, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.

EVANS, Circuit Judge.

Here we have yet another case about prison strip searches. This one began when Jane Peckham filed a pro se complaint alleging that Wisconsin prison and jail officials subjected her to around 35 strip searches (we use the term "strip search" to refer to a visual inspection of a naked inmate without intrusion into the person's body cavities). Claiming the searches were unconstitutional, she sought a ban on them in the future, along with...

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