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Dec 10, 2021 · We show how these concepts shift across lines of cases in ways that prevent prison law from holding together as a defensible body of thought. Exposing the myths that animate prison law yields broader insights about judicial regulation of prisons.
Jul 28, 2020 · The takeaway of my analysis is that the Constitution is best read to impose governmental liability for harm caused to prisoners — whether pretrial or post-conviction — by unreasonably dangerous conditions of confinement and unjustified uses of force.
Sep 29, 2015 · A battle to reform the practice has intensified in recent years, with federal courts on the front lines; the first federal court to invalidate a prison gerrymander did so in 2016, invoking the Equal Protection Clause’s one-person, one-vote principle, and a division of authority has since emerged.
This Article centers prison law in debates about the failures of American criminal justice. Bringing together disparate lines of doctrine, prison memoirs, and historical sources, we trace prison law’s emergence as a discrete field — a subspeciality of constitutional law and a neglected part of the discipline called criminal procedure.
Mar 8, 2019 · This overview suggests that as the carceral state has expanded and evolved, so too have prison strikes — thus placing actions like the latest 2018 strike in a long tradition of prisoners organizing to express deeply held grievances.
Feb 13, 2021 · Protecting Prisoners: The Impact of International Human Rights Law on the Treatment of Prisoners in the United Kingdom
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Jul 5, 2014 · An absence of data and targeted research hampers the development of evidence-based care delivery for the disenfranchised, understudied, and disproportionately ill prisoner population. In this review paper, I discuss a few of the challenges and dilemmas routinely faced and present a series of questions.
