MEMORANDUM
I. BACKGROUND
This case involves the constitutionality of the policy of conducting indiscriminate *1304strip searches, with or without probable cause, of all persons detained at the Montgomery County, Maryland Detention Center. The plaintiff, Vivian Smith, originally brought this action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on behalf of herself and purportedly as a representative of two classes of similarly situated- persons alleging that the County Detention Center’s policy of across the board strip searches violates the Fourth Amendment. Plaintiff and the class she currently represents1 initially sought declaratory and injunctive relief and damages against defendants Paul McGuckian, County Attorney for Montgomery County; Charles Gilchrist, County Executive of Montgomery County; Gary Blake, Director of the Department of Correction and .Rehabilitation of Montgomery County, Denise Dodson, a guard at the Center who conducted a strip search of the plaintiff; and Montgomery County. All individual defendants are being sued in both their individual and official capacities.
This case initially was assigned to Judge Jones, formerly of this District. In a Memorandum and Order dated September 17, 1982, Judge Jones summarized the relevant facts as follows:
Vivian Smith was arrested2 at her home at about 10:00 p.m. on November 12, 1981 for contempt of court, in failing to appear in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County on October 28, 1981 in connection with a child support action originating in Essex County, New Jersey.3 She was taken to the Rockville District police station, where she was photographed and an arrest report was filed. She was then taken, at about 11:40 p.m., to the Montgomery County Detention Center (MCDC), where she remained overnight. The next day she was transported to the Circuit Court for Montgomery County and, after some delay, appeared before a judge, who dismissed the charge against her.
Upon arriving at the detention center, plaintiff was taken to the women’s receiving and discharge area, an open room approximately 15 feet by 20 feet containing a shower, desk, and one cell normally used as a holding cell. She was ordered to, and did, remove all her clothing. She then had to move her arms, open her mouth, bend over and squat, while a female correctional officer conductéd a visual inspection of her body, including her oral, vaginal and anal cavities. This search took place in the presence of another female detainee, who was in the cell in the room. No weapon or contraband was found. Ms. Smith then showered and was placed in the holding cell with the other female detainee overnight.
Smith v. Montgomery County, 547 F.Supp. 592, 593-94 (D.Md.1982) (Jones, J., hereinafter “Smith /”).
In the same Memorandum and Order, Judge Jones granted plaintiff’s motion for a preliminary injunction which stated:
That defendants are enjoined during the pendency of this litigation, from permitting, promulgating a policy permitting, *1305and enforcing the present policy permitting, a visual strip search of a temporary detainee at the Montgomery County Detention Center, as defined herein, except upon probable cause to believe such detainee has weapons or contraband concealed on his or her person. Defendants are likewise enjoined from permitting, promulgating a policy permitting, and enforcing the present policy to the extent that it permits the conducting of visual searches other than in private.
Smith I, 547 F.Supp. at 599.
Thereafter, plaintiff filed a motion for partial summary judgment seeking a declaration that the Center’s strip search policy is unconstitutional and an order permanently enjoining defendants from strip searching short-term detainees absent probable cause to believe that they are concealing weapons or contraband and from strip searching short-term detainees other than in private. This motion for partial summary judgment was denied by this Court' in a subsequent Memorandum Opinion and Order, Smith v. Montgomery County, 573 F.Supp. 604, 614 (D.Md.1983) (Young, J.) (hereinafter “Smith II”), because the plaintiff lacked standing to receive either declaratory, id., at 607-609 (citing Golden v. Zwickler, 394 U.S. 103, 89 S.Ct. 956, 22 L.Ed.2d 113 (1969), or injunctive relief. Smith II, 573 F.Supp. 607-609 (citing Los Angeles v. Lyons, 461 U.S. 95, 103 S.Ct. 1660, 1665, 75 L.Ed.2d 675 (1983); Rizzo v. Goode, 423 U.S. 362, 96 S.Ct. 598, 46 L.Ed.2d 561 (1976); O’Shea v. Littleton, 414 U.S. 488, 94 S.Ct. 669, 38 L.Ed.2d 674 (1974)). Accordingly, this Court dissolved the preliminary injunction against the defendants and declared plaintiffs motion for compliance with the preliminary injunction moot. Smith II, 573 F.Supp. at 609.
While this Court refused to grant plaintiffs permanent injunctive relief, it did, nonetheless, concur with Judge Jones’ determination that Logan v. Shealy,4 660 F.2d 1007 (4th Cir.1981), is controlling on the merits of this case and consequently that the strip search policy at the Montgomery County Detention Center is unconstitutional. Smith II, 573 F.Supp. at 609-10. The Court noted, in certain terms, that:
[when] squarely faced with the issue of the constitutionality of the Center’s indiscriminate strip search policy and failure to conduct strip searches in private ..., the Court holds that, based on Logan, the Center’s indiscriminate strip search policy and failure to conduct strip searches in private is unconstitutional.
Defendants subsequently have moved, pursuant to Rule 60(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure,5 for this Court to reconsider its determination that the Montgomery County Detention Center’s across the board strip search policy is unconstitutional in light of Hudson v. Palmer, — U.S. -, 104 S.Ct. 3194, 82 L.Ed.2d 393 (1984) and Block v. Rutherford, — U.S. -, 104 S.Ct. 3227, 82 L.Ed.2d 438 (1984), two recently decided Supreme Court cases. Defendants also seek summary judgment in *1306their favor and an award of costs based on Hudson. However, the Court finds that Hudson does not require the reversal or modification of its prior holding that the detention center’s strip search policy is unconstitutional and, thus, defendants’ request for relief from this holding and summary judgment in their favor will be denied.
II. DISCUSSION
Defendants contend specifically that this Court’s prior holding is erroneous because “[i]n two recent cases, the Supreme Court of the United States examined the parameters of the Fourth Amendment rights of persons incarcerated in the nation’s prisons and held that none exist.”6 In the Court’s view, this is neither a correct characterization of the Supreme Court’s recent decisions nor is it a correct statement of prior Fourth Amendment law.
A.
In Hudson, the Supreme Court dealt directly with the question of whether a “shakedown” search of an inmate’s cell violated the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures. The Court held that it did not and “that the Fourth Amendment has no applicability to a prison cell.” 104 S.Ct. at 3205 (emphasis added). This holding comports with the Supreme Court’s prior indication that a prisoner may not have had a reasonable expectation of privacy in his cell, Bell v. Wolfish, 441 U.S. 520, 556-57, 99 S.Ct. 1861, 1883-84, 60 L.Ed.2d 447 (1979), but it does not follow therefrom that the prisoner is unprotected from unreasonable invasions of his or her personal privacy.7 In Wolfish, the Supreme Court expressly permitted irregular and unannounced shakedown searches. The Court acknowledged the plausibility of the argument that “a person confined in a detention facility has no reasonable expectation of privacy with respect to his room or cell ...” 441 U.S. at 556-57, 99 S.Ct. at 1883 (emphasis added). Clearly, this proposition recognized by the Court in Wolfish and the holding in Hudson applies to the search of a prisoner’s papers, effects, and property located in the cell and not to the most intimate searches of the inmate’s person. Id.; see Hudson, 104 S.Ct. at 3200-3201 and n. 8; 104 S.Ct. at 3216 n. 31 (Stevens, J., dissenting opinion joined by Brennan, Marshall, and Black-man, JJ.). Hudson does not evicerate the requirement articulated by the Supreme Court in Wolfish that personal body searches of inmates be reasonable under the circumstances and therefore provides no basis for defendants’ conclusion that the Fourth Amendment is ineffective in preventing unreasonable searches of a prisoner’s person. Id. 104 S.Ct. at 3216 n. 31.
Although the Supreme Court held that the Fourth Amendment protections do not extend to a prisoner’s property, it did not hold that prisoners have no constitutional rights. The Court explicitly acknowledged that prisoners retain a variety of express rights guaranteed under the Constitution, including the right of due process, Hudson, 104 S.Ct. at 3198 (citing Wolff v. McDonnell, 418 U.S. 539, 555, 94 S.Ct. 2963, 2974, 41 L.Ed.2d 935 (1974)) and the Eighth Amendment guarantee that they nbt be subject to “cruel and unusual punish-*1307merits.” 104 S.Ct. at 3198. More significantly, the Court also reaffirmed the principles it announced in Wolfish where, inter alia, it applied a balancing test to determine whether strip'searches of inmates and pre-trial detainees were unreasonable in light of the circumstances and therefore violative of the Fourth Amendment.8 Thus, defendants have incorrectly characterized Hudson as holding that inmates and pre-trial detainees9 — or temporary detainees as in this case — retain no Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable strip and body cavity searches.
B.
Defendants have similarly misconstrued Block v. Rutherford, — U.S. -, 104 S.Ct. 3227, 82 L.Ed.2d 438 (1984). In Block, the Supreme Court, consistent with its holdings in Hudson and Wolfish, upheld the Los Angeles County Jail practice of conducting random, irregular “shakedown” searches of cells. The Court found that this practice did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment. 104 S.Ct. at 3229. Moreover, Block did not overrule the balancing test applied or the reasonableness requirement announced in Wolfish. The Court in Block simply did not engage in a Fourth Amendment analysis because plaintiffs’ claim of a right to observe from a distance shakedown searches of their cells was brought under the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. See 104 S.Ct. at 3235. In the instant case, plaintiffs’ claim of unconstitutional strip searches must be analyzed under the Fourth Amendment balancing test of Wolfish. Finally, the Supreme Court noted with some emphasis in Block that the detainees involved there had been denied bail pending trial and therefore would not be released before trial.10 See id. 104 S.Ct. at 3228, 3221, 3222. In contrast, the instant case involves “temporary detainees” who are held at the Montgomery County Detention Center for 24 hours or less, during which time they will have an opportunity to post bail, and, if not released beforehand will have their first appearance before a judge.11
Consequently, neither Hudson or Block provide any basis for setting aside this Court’s prior decision that the Montgomery County Detention Center’s policy of conducting indiscriminate and nonprivate strip searches is unconstitutional. Instead, these recent decisions reaffirm the principles of Wolfish which were construed and applied by the Fourth Circuit in Logan, 660 F.2d at 1107, 1013 and followed by this Court in both Smith I, 547 F.Supp. at 598 and Smith II, 573 F.Supp. at 609-610. Thus, the Fourth Circuit’s use of the balancing test prescribed by the Supreme Court in reaching its determination that an indiscriminate strip search policy applied to temporary detainees is unconstitutional, *1308Logan, 660 F.2d at 1013,12 remains good law13 and controls the resolution of the instant case.
Finally, defendants contend that the county detention center’s policy of conducting across the board strip searches of all detainees is constitutional because temporary detainees are intermingled with the general population of convicted inmates and pre-trial detainees and because information from other jurisdictions indicates that such searches have revealed weapons and contraband. Nonetheless, the Court finds that in light of the record now before it, these contentions do not justify the center’s indiscriminate strip search policy and this policy is, therefore, unconstitutional. See Logan, 660 F.2d at 1013.
An indiscriminate strip search policy routinely applied to detainees such as the named plaintiff here and all other detainees “cannot be constitutionally justified simply on the basis of administrative ease in attending to security considerations.” Id. (citing Tinetti v. Wittke, 479 F.Supp. 486, 490-91 (E.D.Wisc.1979), aff'd, 620 F.2d 160 (7th Cir.1980)). In determining whether such policies are reasonable -in light of the significant governmental interest in maintaining security and order within a correctional facility or detention center, courts must remain mindful that such considerations are primarily within the province and professional expertise of corrections officials. Cf. Wolfish, 441 U.S. at 554-56, 99 S.Ct. at 1882-83; Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners’ Labor Union, 433 U.S. 119, 97 S.Ct. 2532, 53 L.Ed.2d 629 (1977); Pell v. Procunier, 417 U.S. 817, 827, 94 S.Ct. 2800, 2806, 41 L.Ed.2d 495 (1974) (these cases deal with an assessment of the reasonableness of various institutional policies and restrictions under the due process clause). However, where there is substantial evidence in the record which indicates that officials have exaggerated their response to legitimate institutional concerns, courts need not defer to their judgment. See Wolfish, 441 U.S. at 540-541 n. 23, 99 S.Ct. at 1874-1875 n. 23 (quoting Pell, 417 U.S. at 827, 94 S.Ct. at 2806).
As the record in this case sufficiently demonstrates, newly arrived detainees, both male and female, are housed in areas that are physically separate from the housing areas for the general population.14 Although the existing administrative practice in the women’s section of the Montgomery *1309County facility is such that a temporary detainee may have some limited access to the general population during meals or early morning hours before the temporary detainee is taken to court, this access may easily be eliminated by leaving the temporary detainees in their cells. See Dodson Deposition, pp. 77-78. Moreover, the fact that weapons or contraband might sometimes be found during strip searches of pre-trial detainees or convicted inmates does not justify an indiscriminate strip search policy that includes strip searches of temporary detainees. Indeed, other local jurisdictions have successfully implemented policies which prohibit strip searches of temporary détainees in the absence of probable cause.15
These considerations inevitably lead this Court to conclude that, like Logan, the indiscriminate strip searches of temporary detainees bear no reasonable relationship to security needs at the detention facility that, when balanced against the “ultimate invasion of personal rights involved,” would justify it. Logan, 660 F.2d at 1013. Additionally, the recent decisions of the Supreme Court in Hudson and Block do not vitiate the Fourth Amendment analysis utilized by the Court of Appeals in Logan nor do they demand reversal of this Court’s prior determination in this matter.