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Prisoners and the Law provides expert guidance critical to successfully handling cases involving prisoners’ legal rights. Text focuses on legal issues affecting our prison population such as AIDS, drugs, overcrowding, security, appeals, weapons, correspondence, visitation issues, and prisoner safety. Presents scholarly views on alternative policies regarding the future of prison reform, the death penalty, restitution, new correctional systems, and inmate welfare funds. Use as a resource for issues relating to private incarceration, disenfranchisement of ex-felons, and deaf prisoners’ rights. Also includes statistics on prisoners, prisons, probation, and parole.

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Comprehensive resource on prisoners’ legal rights
Expert guidance for handling prisoners’ rights cases
Identifies current prisoners’ rights issues
Includes prisoner, prison, probation, and parole statistics
In-depth articles, written by leading authorities, on the background, development, and current status of the law

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I.	An Overview of Prison Law
	1.	Introduction
	1A.	Correctional Developments
	1B.	Overview of the Law of Prisoners' Rights and Remedies
	2.	Legal Developments
II.	Litigating and Enforcing the Rights of Prisoners
	3.	The First Amendment
	4.	Fourth Amendment, Privacy and Possessory Rights
	5.	Procedural Due Process Rights
	6.	Overcrowding
	7.	The Eighth Amendment
	8.	Death-Row Conditions
	9.	Supervisory Liability
	9A.	Overview of the Law of Probation, Supervised Release, Restitution, and Parole
	10.	Parole
	10A.	Pardon and Clemency
III.	Procedural Aspects of Prisoner Litigation
	11.	Magistrate Judges
	11A.	The Provision of Counsel
	12.	Obtaining Witnesses
	13.	Challenges to the Duration of Confinement
	13A.	Death Penalty Review
	13B.	Challenges to the Duration of Confinement for Federal Prisoners
	13C.	The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996
IV.	Special Issues and Problems
	14.	The Rights of Gay Prisoners
	14A.	AIDS
	14B.	Compassionate Release
	15.	Prison Riots
	16.	Inmate Welfare Funds
	17.	Jail Litigation
	17A.	Disenfranchisement
	17B.	The Rights of Deaf Prisoners
	17C.	The Rights of Women Prisoners
	17D.	The Rights of Native American Prisoners
	17E.	The Rights of Disabled Prisoners
V.	The Future of Prison Reform
	18.	The Accreditation Debate
	19.	The Future of Prisons
	20.	Restitution
	21.	Prison Industries
	22.	Privatization of Corrections
Appendixes:
	A.	Prisoners' Assistance Directory
	B.	Prisoner Litigation Status Reports
	C.	Prisoner Statistics
	D.	Jail Inmate Statistics
	E.	Probation and Parole Statistics
	F.	Correctional and Detention Facility Statistics
	G.	International Statistics
Index


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