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see Nat'l Aeronautics & Space Admin. v. Nelson, 131 S. Ct. 746, 756-57, 178 L. Ed. 2d 667 (2011), and the question remains open in the First Circuit. Coughlin v. Town of Arlington, No. 10-10203-MLW, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 146285, 2011 WL 6370932, at *13 (D. Mass. Dec. 19, 2011).
government interest put forward to justify it; (2) whether alternative means to exercise the right exist; (3) the impact that accommodating the right will have on prison resources; and (4) the absence of alternatives to the prison regulation. 482 U.S. at 89-90.
Even if plaintiff has a right to privacy, defendants have not violated it because the new protocol is rationally connected to legitimate penological interests. See Turner v. Safley, 482 U.S. 78, 89, 107 S. Ct. 2254, 96 L. Ed. 2d 64 (1987).6 Safeguarding the health of inmates is a legitimate penological interest, Cryer v. Mass. Dep't of Corr., 763 F. Supp. 2d 237, 250 (D. Mass. 2011), as is conserving financial resources. Klein v. Tocci, No. 0911248-GAO, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 66143, 2010 WL 2643414, at *2 (D. Mass. July 1, 2010). Attending the medication line safeguards inmate health because it allows prison medical staff to watch inmates take their medications and thereby ensure they comply with their drug regimens. Furthermore, HIV medication represents a significant cost for defendants. See Docket # 99, SOF ∂ 53 (noting that in fiscal [*8] years 2008-2011, HIV medications cost approximately $5 million per year and constituted forty-two percent of pharmacy expenditures, spent on two percent of the inmate population). Because defendants can only receive a monetary credit for returned, unused medications which have not previously been distributed to inmates, id. ∂∂ 54-56, retaining possession of HIV medications enables potentially substantial cost savings. The new protocol is therefore rationally connected to the interest in financial prudence.
The other Turner factors also support the constitutional validity of the new protocol. The second factor is satisfied because inmates may still seek accommodations to allay their privacy concerns. See id. ∂ 177 (citing 103 DOC 207.04). [*9] As for the third, the medication line policy is likely to increase available prison resources by reducing medical waste. Finally, plaintiff presents no policy alternatives that "fully accommodate the prisoner's rights at de minimis cost to valid penological interests." Thornburgh v. Abbott, 490 U.S. 401, 418, 109 S. Ct. 1874, 104 L. Ed. 2d 459 (1989). Therefore, the new protocol bears a rational relation to legitimate penological interests and the right plaintiff asserts may be curtailed.
U.S. v. Jeffrey Leon Battle, et al.

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