Davis v. Castleberry.U.S. District Court PAT SEARCH Davis v. Castleberry, 364 F.Supp.2d 319 (W.D.N.Y. 2005). An inmate brought a civil rights action against a corrections officer The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. who allegedly touched his penis during a pat frisk, and prison employees who investigated and denied his grievance. The district court granted summary judgment for the defendants. The court held that even assuming that the officer touched the inmate's penis during a pat frisk performed before the inmate entered a prison exercise yard, the conduct did not violate the Eighth Amendment because it was proper for the officer to have conducted the search and such a search could involve the genital area. The court noted that inmate grievance procedures A term used in Labor Law to describe an orderly, established way of dealing with problems between employers and employees. Through the grievance procedure system, workers' complaints are usually communicated through their union to management for consideration by the employer. are not even constitutionally required, and therefore an inmate's mere disagreement with the outcome of his grievance will not give rise to a constitutional claim. (Southport Correctional Facility The Southport Correctional Facility is an ultra-maximum-security, or "supermax," prison in New York State, USA. It is located in the town of Southport, New York, in upstate Chemung County. , New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of ) |
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