The Court of Appeals observed that Bell holds that "both convicted prisoners and pretrial detainees retain constitutional rights. The intake center is considered a maximum security prison. These searches are routine policies of RIDOC, because Rhode Island has a unified prison system that houses and mixes both pretrial detainees and convicted prisoners. Both while being processed in and, the same day, processed out for release, Roberts was subjected to strip searches and visual body cavity searches. Although Roberts produced an order from the court revoking the attachment, he was nonetheless taken into custody and transported to RIDOC's Intake Service Center at the Adult Correctional Institution in Cranston, RI.
A computer check revealed that Roberts had an "outstanding body attachment" from Rhode Island's family court. Roberts, Sr., was a passenger in a car stopped for expired registration stickers.
This ruling upholds the decision of the U.S. The Court of Appeals for the First Circuit has held that two Rhode Island Department of Corrections (RIDOC) policies routinely subjecting all males committed to the state prison to strip searches and visual body cavity searches are not reasonable under Bell v Wolfish, 441 U.S. Share: Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on G+ Share with email
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