NCJ Number
133856
Editor(s)
R C Miller,
D J Walter,
T L Nickerson
Date Published
1992
Length
893 pages
Annotation
This catalog summarizes court cases pertaining to detention and corrections. The cases are categorized into 50 topic areas.
Abstract
The summaries provide highlights of each case. They are organized by year within topic section. The topics include access to courts, administration, administrative segregation, assessment of costs, and attorney fees. Other subject areas are bail, civil rights, classification and separation, conditions of confinement, cruel and unusual punishment, and discipline. The catalog contains case law on exercise and recreation, ex-offenders, failure to protect, facilities, false imprisonment/arrest, female prisoners, and food. It also discusses free speech and expression, good time, prisoner grievance procedures, habeas corpus, and prisoner personal hygiene. Other topics include immunity, intake and admissions, juveniles, liability, mail, medical care, mental problems, personnel, pretrial detention, privacy, prisoner programs, and prisoner personal property. Additional categories of case law are release, religion, rules and regulations, safety and security, sanitation, searchers, prisoner services, sentence, standards, and supervision. Finally, the case law covers training, transfers, use of force, visiting, and prisoner work rights.