Court Opinion

ID: 9471207
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 03:26:57.12391+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:42:18.615076
License: Public Domain

MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
Concurrence in Judge Russell’s opinion is mandated by the consideration that Buie is without a stake or interest making it inappropriate for him to raise the interesting legal question at issue.
However, those who operate detention facilities, whether in the form of local jails or prisons, should be aware that the absolute prohibition on visitation by a detainee’s minor children such as is alleged here is almost certainly unconstitutional. See Jones v. Diamond, 636 F.2d 1364, 1377 n. 12 (5th Cir.1978) (en banc), cert. granted, 452 U.S. 959, 101 S.Ct. 3106, 69 L.Ed.2d 970 (1981), cert. dismissed, 453 U.S. 950, 102 S.Ct. 27, 69 L.Ed.2d 1033 (1981); Nicholson v. Choctaw County, Ala., 498 F.Supp. 295, 310 (S.D.Ala.1980); Valentine v. Englehardt, 474 F.Supp. 294, 301-02 (D.N.J.1979).