PRISONERS' RIGHTS (CRJU9402)
2 or 3 credits. Seminar.
Prerequisites: Constitutional Law or Constitutional Law I and II.

This course will introduce the student to the law of corrections and prisoners' rights. The course will begin with a historical overview of th state practice of incarceration and then consider the evolution of th elaw of prisoner's rights from the time of the era of the "hands-off doctrine" through the civil rights era of the mid-twentieth century and up to and including modern statutory and judicial developments. Special attention will be paid to the following topics: Speech and Religion in Prison, Access to the Courts, Discipline and Classification, Personal Injruy, Application of the Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause, Parole, and Prisoners' Rights Litigation in the modern statutory environment. A visit by the class to a local state or federal prison is also planned. Each student will submit a paper satisfying the advance writing requirement.