What are Prisoner Rights?
A claim by an individual or group of individuals that another individual, a corporation, or the state has a duty to fulfill.
What is a right?
What is the principal legal document establishing the treatment of criminal defendants?
What is the Bill of Rights?
Which amendment addresses freedom of religion for inmates?
What is the First Amendment?
Prior to 1960, what term was used to define how inmates were viewed legally?
What continues to be a problem in prisons?
What is overcrowding?
Convicted felons do not have rights other than those conferred on them by law derived from the constitution, congress, and state legislatures (“due process”).
What is Legalistic/Due Process view?
Proper search and seizure is covered by what amendment?
What is the Fourth Amendment?
Which case ruled that strip searches are allowed in prisons?
What is Bell v. Wolfish (1979)
What case established felons were seen as slaves of the state?
What is Ruffin v. Commonwealth of Virginia?
What is the grievance process?
That inmates are human and should be given rights and privileges to aid rehabilitation.
What is humanistic view?
What establishes rights based on previous court decisions?
What is legal precedents.
Issues such as living conditions, solitary confinement, and physical abuse are covered under which amendment?
What is the Eighth Amendment?
A stance where courts refrained from interfering in prison administration.
What is the "Hands-Off Doctrine?"
What do they call programs that have been successful at improving conditions in adult prisons by monitoring the relaitonship between prisoners and prison officials?
What is Corrections ombudsman?
Convicted criminals have forfeited their rights, and suffering in confinement deters future crime.
What is crime control view?
A legal means for inmates to challenge the constitutionality of their convictions.
What is a writ of habeas corpus?
When is a punishment considered "cruel and unusual"?
What is degrading human dignity, disproportionality, or showing deliberate indifference.
What was established to allow more prisoners to successfully challenge conditions of confinement?
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1871?
What is a program that recognizes the importance of providing inmates with legal counsel to exercise their rights?
What is the innocence project?
How many views were discussed on why it is difficult to define prisoner rights?
What is three?
Legislation that limits the ability of inmates to allege violations of their constitutional rights.
What is the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA)?
Which amendment covers the due process being a major issue for inmates when applied to disciplinary hearings and inmates helping each other prepare cases for appeal?
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
What is the Prisoner Rights Movement?
What was the dogs name that walked around with us at the prison?
What is something that started with a T?