NCJ Number
103106
Editor(s)
R C Miller,
D J Walter
Date Published
1987
Length
140 pages
Annotation
This manual presents summaries of selected court decisions in chronological order for 50 topic areas relevant to detention and corrections.
Abstract
The major topics covered are: access to courts, administration, administrative segregation, assessment of costs, attorney fees, bail, civil rights, classification and separation, conditions of confinement, cruel and unusual punishment, discipline, exercise and recreation, failure to protect, facilities, false imprisonment/arrest, female prisoners, food, free speech and association, good time, grievances, prisoner hygiene, immunity, intake and admissions, juveniles, liability, mail, medical care, mental problems, personnel, pretrial detention, privacy, inmate programs, inmate property, release, religion, rules and regulations, safety and security, sanitation, searches, prisoner services, sentence, standards, supervision, training, transfers, use of force, visiting, and prisoner work. Case summaries are organized by year within each topic. Margin references highlight the type of court involved and issues addressed. Instructions for using the catalog and indexes.