A strip search of female inmates that forced the women to spread their genitals before male prison guards did not violate the prisoners’ Fourth Amendment rights, a divided federal appeals panel ruled.A majority of a 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel, in deciding against the female plaintiff inmates, declined to overrule its own precedent that holds the Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply to visual strip searches of prisoners.“For more than 20 years it has been established in this circuit that the Fourth …