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Legal rights of prisoners : cases and comments / James F. Anderson and Laronistine Dyson.

Title
Legal rights of prisoners : cases and comments / James F. Anderson and Laronistine Dyson.
Author
Anderson, James F.
Publication
Lanham : University Press of America, c2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Dyson, Laronistine.
  • Dyson, Laronistine
Description
185 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
"Legal Rights of Prisoners" is a timely book that addresses the constitutional rights of people in places of confinement. More specifically, it examines the amendments that inmates use and the case law that has developed to address their concerns.
Subject
  • Prisoners > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States > Cases
  • Correctional law > United States > Cases
Genre/Form
Trials, litigation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
An introduction to American law -- the corrections component of criminal justice -- From hands-off to hands-on -- Types of lawsuits and petitions brought -- Preventing inmate litigation -- Inmates and the first amendment -- Inmates and the fourth amendment -- Inmates and the eighth amendment -- Inmates and the fourteenth amendment -- Reverting to a hands-off approach.
ISBN
  • 0761819622 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0761819630 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2001027000
OCLC
45799699
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library