What is Bell v. Wolfish?

Bell v. Wolfish, 441 U.S. 520 , is a case in which the United States Supreme Court addressed the constitutionality of various conditions of confinement of inmates held in federal short-term detention facilities. The Court narrowly found that while treatment of pre-trial detainees is subject to constraint by the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments, all of the policies challenged in the case passed constitutional scrutiny.