Gonzalez v. Narcato.U.S. District Court STRIP SEARCH Gonzalez v. Narcato, 363 F.Supp.2d 486 (E.D.N.Y. 2005). An inmate brought a [section] 1983 action against prison officials, alleging violation of his First and Fourth Amendment rights. The district court granted summary judgment for the defendants. The court held that the prison officials' decision to prevent the inmate from attending a ceremony in the prison chapel conducted by a Catholic cardinal was reasonable and therefore did not violate the inmate's First Amendment rights to petition the government for redress of grievances. The court found that a corrections department policy that required all inmates being admitted to a solitary housing unit Housing Unit A house, apartment, mobile home, trailer, group of rooms, or single room occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters. Separate living quarters are classified as a place where the occupants do not live and eat with any other person in the structure.Notes: Simply put, a housing unit is a self-contained living space. See also: Housing Market Index, Housing Starts (SHU) to undergo a strip frisk frisk v. quickly patting down the clothes of a possible criminal suspect to determine if there is a concealed weapon. This police action is generally considered legal (constitutional) without a search warrant. Generally it is preferred that women officers frisk women and men officers frisk men. search to assure they had no contraband was reasonable and did not violate the inmate's Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches. (Arthur Kill Correctional Facility, New York)
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