Add to ORKGPrisoners’ rights lawyers have long faced a dismal legal landscape. Yet, 2015 was a remarkable year for prison litigation that could signal a new period for this area of law—the Supreme Court handed down decisions that will reverberate in prison jurisprudence for decades to come. New questions have been asked, new avenues opened. This piece is about what the Court has done recently, and what possibilities it has opened for the future. More broadly, I suggest that the Court may be subjecting prison officials to greater scrutiny and that this shifting judicial landscape reflects an evolving social discourse about prison conditions and mass incarceration. With the United States leading the world in incarcerating its own people, the federal cou...
This Article is part of the University of Miami Law Review’s Leading from Below Symposium. It canvas...
Dynamic changes have occurred in recent years in the area of prisoners\u27 rights. The antiquated vi...
Lawyers obtained the first federal court orders governing prison and jail conditions in the 1960s. T...
Prisoners’ rights lawyers have long faced a dismal legal landscape. Yet, 2015 was a remarkable year ...
This article examines how the development and status of the rights of incarcerated people is signifi...
The civil rights movement has reached into prisons and jails, directing public attention to the fact...
This special issue on prison litigation is well-timed. As Tinsley Yarbrough notes in The Alabama Pr...
In prisoner litigation, straightforward victory is rare. Win or lose, prisoners most often remain in...
The administration of criminal justice consists of four major areas: the arrest and charge of the co...
This Article is part of the University of Miami Law Review’s Leading from Below Symposium. It canvas...
Introduction: In Bell v. Wolfish, the United States Supreme Court held that, with respect to conditi...
As American incarcerated populations grew starting in the 1970s, so too did court oversight of priso...
Over the past three decades, the US judiciary has grown increasingly less receptive to claims by con...
Prior to the late 1960s, federal courts took a hands-off approach when inmates in state prisons trie...
The Supreme Court has long recognized that prisoners\u27 constitutional rights must be balanced agai...
This Article is part of the University of Miami Law Review’s Leading from Below Symposium. It canvas...
Dynamic changes have occurred in recent years in the area of prisoners\u27 rights. The antiquated vi...
Lawyers obtained the first federal court orders governing prison and jail conditions in the 1960s. T...
Prisoners’ rights lawyers have long faced a dismal legal landscape. Yet, 2015 was a remarkable year ...
This article examines how the development and status of the rights of incarcerated people is signifi...
The civil rights movement has reached into prisons and jails, directing public attention to the fact...
This special issue on prison litigation is well-timed. As Tinsley Yarbrough notes in The Alabama Pr...
In prisoner litigation, straightforward victory is rare. Win or lose, prisoners most often remain in...
The administration of criminal justice consists of four major areas: the arrest and charge of the co...
This Article is part of the University of Miami Law Review’s Leading from Below Symposium. It canvas...
Introduction: In Bell v. Wolfish, the United States Supreme Court held that, with respect to conditi...
As American incarcerated populations grew starting in the 1970s, so too did court oversight of priso...
Over the past three decades, the US judiciary has grown increasingly less receptive to claims by con...
Prior to the late 1960s, federal courts took a hands-off approach when inmates in state prisons trie...
The Supreme Court has long recognized that prisoners\u27 constitutional rights must be balanced agai...
This Article is part of the University of Miami Law Review’s Leading from Below Symposium. It canvas...
Dynamic changes have occurred in recent years in the area of prisoners\u27 rights. The antiquated vi...
Lawyers obtained the first federal court orders governing prison and jail conditions in the 1960s. T...