Thompson v. Woods

upholding opposite-sex pat searches by female guards that includes a search of both the genital and buttock areas | upholding opposite-sex pat searches by female guards that includes a search of both the genital and buttock areas | “any restriction upon a defendant’s access to his counsel during a recess, whether the recess be extended or brief, is constitutionally impermissible.” | all of which recognize that even a male prison inmate has a right of privacy against a frisk of the genital area by a female guard.