Download or read book Courts Corrections and the Constitution written by John J. DiIulio and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By some definitions, most American prisons and jails are overcrowded; by any definition, many penal facilities are filthy and violence-ridden. Over the last twenty years, dozens of state and local corrections systems have come under court orders to reform. What have been the causes and consequences of judicial involvement in this area, and how in the future can judges act to improve the quality of life behind bars at a reasonable human and financial cost? This volume by a diverse and distinguished group of contributors provides a much needed answer to this question. It offers an introductory statement on enhancing judicial capacity; a critical review of the relevant literatures; original in-depth analyses of selected state and local cases; a statistical study of the likely effect of the "Republicanization" of the federal bench on judicial involvement; and a provocative essay by a corrections practitioner with over three decades of litigation experience. Under the heading "What Judges Can Do to Improve Prisons and Jails," the concluding chapter by DiIulio highlights key findings, offers policy prescriptions, and suggests an agenda for future research.

Download or read book Constitutional Rights of Prisoners written by John W. Palmer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text details critical information on all aspects of prison litigation, including information on trial and appeal, conditions of isolated confinement, access to the courts, parole, right to medical aid and liabilities of prison officials. Highlighted topics include application of the Americans with Disabilities Act to prisons, protection given to HIV-positive inmates, and actions of the Supreme Court and Congress to stem the flow of prison litigation. Part II contains Judicial Decisions Relating to Part I.

Download or read book Corrections and the Criminal Justice System written by David C. May and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2008 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corrections And The Criminal Justice System Is Designed To Help Students Understand Corrections In Relation To The Entire Criminal Justice System. This Text Begins With An Overview Of The Field Of Criminal Justice And Covers The Components Of The Criminal Justice System That An Offender Must Pass Through Prior To His/Her Corrections Experience (Police, Courts, And Sentencing). The Second Part Of The Text Shows Students How Corrections Is Interconnected And Related To The Other Aspects Of The Criminal Justice System.

Download or read book Legal Aspects of Corrections Management written by Clair A. Cripe and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2005 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers all facets of the legal environment of prison and jail administration in clear, non-technical fashion. Most of the book is devoted to a detailed presentation of what the law has said about specific areas of corrections operations and practices.

Download or read book Corrections written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 3 and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Supreme Court and the Development of Law written by Christopher E. Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illuminates the decision-making processes of the US Supreme court through an examination of several prisoners' rights cases. In 1964, the Supreme Court declined to hear prisoners’ claims about religious freedom. In 2014, the Supreme Court heard a case that led to the justices’ unanimous endorsement of a Muslim prisoner’s religious right to grow a beard despite objections from prison officials. In the fifty-year span between those two events, the Supreme Court developed the law concerning rights for imprisoned offenders. As demonstrated in this book, the factors that shape Supreme Court decision making are well-illustrated by prisoners’ rights cases. This area of law illuminates competing approaches to constitutional interpretation, behind-the-scenes interactions among the justices, and the manipulation of legal precedents. External actors also affect the Supreme Court and its decisions when the president appoints new justices and Congress targets the judiciary with legislative enactments. Because of the controversial nature of prisoners’ rights issues, these cases serve to illuminate the full array of influences over Supreme Court decision making.

Download or read book Correctional Law for the Correctional Officer written by William C. Collins and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated edition answers officers' questions about the rights of inmates and staff, and provides correctional staff with a basic understanding of the law. Includes federal and state court cases. Explains legal liabilities and rights associated with searches and seizures, use of force, punishment, AIDS, suicide, protective custody, religion, mail, visiting, and more.

Download or read book Introduction to Criminal Justice written by George E. Berkley and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Supermax prisons and the Constitution written by William C. Collins and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Constitution and the Future of Criminal Justice in America written by John T. Parry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-26 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Constitution and the Future of Criminal Justice in America brings together leading scholars from law, psychology and criminology to address timely and important topics in US criminal justice. The book tackles cutting-edge issues related to terrorism, immigration and transnational crime, and to the increasingly important connections between criminal law and the fields of social science and neuroscience. It also provides critical new perspectives on intractable problems such as the right to counsel, race and policing, and the proper balance between security and privacy. By putting legal theory and doctrine into a concrete and accessible context, the book will advance public policy and scholarly debates alike. This collection of essays is appropriate for anyone interested in understanding the current state of criminal justice and its future challenges.

Download or read book Introduction to Criminal Justice written by Neil C. Chamelin and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1975 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook is designed as an introduction to the backgrounds, philosophies, and interrelationships of the police, courts, and corrections. The three major sections follow the input, process, output model of a system. There is a general overview of the criminal justice system and the scope of the crime problem, a critical examination of historical perspectives; contemporary issues; the current state-of-the-art and the interrelationships of the police, law, the courts, and the correction-related elements of the criminal justice system. The section on the police subsystem discusses federal, state and local policing, management and support specialists, and operational specialist and generalist components. The section on criminal law and the courts considers the historical perspectives of the systems, moral considerations and law, courts in the united states, and the trial process. A survey of constitutional principles is also presented. The final section on corrections examines the development of corrections, jails and detention, probation, parole and other release procedures, correctional institutions and the institutional society, community-based corrections and the criminal justice system.

Download or read book The Past Present and Future of American Criminal Justice written by Brendan Maguire and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1996 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's criminal justice system is the product of adjustments and reappraisals of policies and practices of the past. The Past Present, and Future of American Criminal Justice highlights how criminal justice has changed and how it continues to change.

Download or read book Corrections Prisons prison reform and prisoner rights Michigan written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 3 and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Prisons Under the Gavel written by Bradley Stewart Chilton and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study we are reminded that courts in the United States have increasingly undertaken the reform of public institutions, including schools, mental facilities, public housing, and prisons. Although such reforms are triggered by cases of individualcivil rights violations, they often result in major structural changes in the institutions through remedial decrees that reallocate budgetary resources. Prisons have received the special attention of federal judges. Early lawsuits began in the South and moved from Arkansas, Mississippi, and Alabama to encompass thirty-eight states. Broad and sweeping injunctions came from courts ordering changes in prison sanitation, food, temperature, fire control and ventilation. They have also changed security, discipline, racial discrimination, over-crowding, libraries, religious freedom and segregation. Unlike most conventional adjudication, reform litigation is far more complex, protracted and controversial. The present study illustrates that remedial decrees require extensive negotiation and active participation by the judge with the assistance of special masters, monitors and experts. These teams are often treated as hated federal adversaries by state officials. The struggle to fix liability, craft remedies and measure compliance is often done in the white heat of political wars, journalistic commentary, and political careers laid on the line. The long battles take on a life of their own, are seemingly interminable and are full of drama. Draconian measures often follow showdowns as when Judge Frank Johnson removed control of the Alabama prisons from the corrections system and placed them under direct receivership of the Governor. "PRISONS UNDER THE GAVEL: THE FEDERAL TAKEOVER OF GEORGIA PRISONS" by Bradley Stewart Chilton uses a detailed case study to explore the nature of court-induced prison reform. In 1972, a lawsuit by seven black inmates protesting living conditions at Georgia State prison became the basis of Guthrie v. Evans. Over the course of thirteen years, District Judge Anthony Alaimo ordered extensive changes in all aspects of the prison's operations. From a simple forma pauperis petition to a class action that found cruel and unusual punishment, Guthrie had impact far beyond Georgia borders in correctional practices and constitutional law. Professor Chilton seeks to answer four interesting questions in his study: (1) who were the key decision-makers in the Guthrie case and how did they perceive the case and underlying issues; (2) how did the budget for the Georgia State Prison change in the course of litigation and what were the important factors in that process; (3) what were the major remedies undertaken and how did settlement patterns change in the course of litigation; (4) finally, what rights undergirded the Guthrie litigation and what does this tell us about institutional reform litigation (p. 9). Two major sources supply the data for the study -- the extensive court records, legal communications, monitors' report and other archival materials supplemented by journalistic accounts from the period and secondly, focused interviews with a number of the primary participants in the case. The book is organized with half (chapters 2-5) of the study a chronological history of the Guthrie case. The second half (chapters 6-7) looks to answering the questions noted above by exploring perspectives of key decision-makers, budget policies, remedial decrees and the nature of prisoners' constitutional rights. The study concludes (chapter 8) with a critique of the institutionalization of prisoner rights and a comparison of the Guthrie case with other prison reform cases. Chilton organizes his chronology along the lines of Phillip Cooper's 1988 "internal dynamic case study" approach which focuses "on the perspectives (internal) of key decision-makers as they interact over time (dynamic) in the formulation and implementation of remedial decrees." Using Cooper's theoretical decree litigation model, Chilton divides his chronology into four phases: trigger, liability, remedy and post-decree. Although Cooper's model is a convenient organizing scheme for the presentation of the Guthrie history, it does not provide a strong theoretical basis for the study. Indeed, the study's greatest weakness is its paucity of theory. The narrative struggles in the first three chapters to get up to the tree line and through the complex tangle of legal underbrush. Frankly, the effort does not succeed. The author is an accomplished legal observer, knowledgeable of the issues of law, court terminology, jurisdiction, special monitors and court decrees. One also assumes he is a sensitive student of court politics, but his legal skills overcome his political analysis in the first half of the study. Unless one has a very keen interest in this case, the reader will find the case detail overwhelming and boring. In the second half of the study, a more enlightened and interesting analysis emerges. Thirty-six key decision-makers were identified in the Guthrie case and Professor Chilton conducted interviews with thirty-four of them. Although respondents are not identified, their comments are illuminating, helping us to understand the political and professional power struggles that make up Guthrie. The personal and antagonistic comments are intense and blunt and the case takes on vitality and meaning when the participants reflect upon the battleground. The author concludes with a useful analysis of the Guthrie case in the context of other prison litigation. He observes that this lawsuit, unlike many others, achieved desired change because the judge followed a strategy of hard-bargained consent with judicial pressure, but not judicial fiat. This work has many of the limitations of single case studies, but one feels certain that this young scholar has mastered this case and has presented an objective and comprehensive narrative for the record. With a growing body of judicial literature on remedial decrees, we will soon be in a position to develop more broadly based theory to guide future research.

Download or read book Legal Responsibility and Authority of Correctional Officers written by William C. Collins and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Legal Aspects of Corrections Management written by Daryl Kosiak and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legal Aspects of Corrections Management continues to provide a comprehensive and engaging presentation of contemporary legal issues impacting corrections management in a thoroughly updated fourth edition. Written for students who do not have a law background, the author uses case law to explain how the First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments relate to the day-to-day issues of running a prison, jail, and other corrections programs, including probation and parole. cs covered in the extensively updated Fourth Edition include inmate access to the courts, correspondence, visitors, and religion; search, seizure, and privacy; inmate discipline, classification, and transfers; personal injuries and property loss; equal protection for female offenders; conditions of confinement; health care, and more timely discussions.

Download or read book Corrections written by William J. Chambliss and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corrections looks at the correctional system and offers arguments for and against the practice of the laws and policies that comprise corrections, from parole and probation to imprisonment, to the application of the death penalty. The 20 included chapters, written by eminent scholars and experts in the fields of criminology, police science, law, sociology, psychology, and other disciplines, take on such contested topics as what the goals of the correctional system should be (deterrence, rehabilitation, retribution, or something else?) and how they should be achieved; who should make these decisions; and how to balance the goals of the correctional system with the civil rights of the inmates. Prison conditions and the treatment of prisoners, as well as the changing definition of cruel and unusual punishment, are also examined. The Series The five brief, issues-based books in SAGE Reference′s Key Issues in Crime & Punishment Series offer examinations of controversial programs, practices, problems or issues from varied perspectives. Volumes correspond to the five central subfields in the Criminal Justice curriculum: Crime & Criminal Behavior, Policing, The Courts, Corrections, and Juvenile Justice. Each volume consists of approximately 20 chapters offering succinct pro/con examinations, and Recommended Readings conclude each chapter, highlighting different approaches to or perspectives on the issue at hand. As a set, these volumes provide perfect reference support for students writing position papers in undergraduate courses spanning the Criminal Justice curriculum. Each title is approximately 350 pages in length.