Davis v. Castleberry.

• Position: GRIEVANCE PROCEDURES, PRISONER - Brief Article

U.S. District Court

DUE PROCESS

Davis v. Castleberry, 364 F.Supp.2d 319 (W.D.N.Y. 2005). An inmate brought a civil rights action against a corrections officer 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...