Rights of prisoners

by Michael B. Mushlin

Other authorsDonald T. Kramer (Author)
Print book, c2009

Status

Available

Call number

KF9731 .M87

LCC

KF9731 .M87

Barcode

2000002579

Publication

[United States] : Thomson/West

Physical description

442 p.; 26 cm

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Rights of prisoners volume 4 contents: Ch. 18 - Private prisons. I. Introduction. §18:1. Generally. II. The history of private prisons. §18:2. Generally. §18:3. Arguments in favor of private prisons. §18:4. Arguments in opposition to private prisons. III. The delegation debate. §18:5. Can government delegate authority to private entities to operate prisons? §18:6. The nondelegation doctrine. §18:7. Application of the nondelegation doctrine to the case of private prisons. §18:8. Nondelegation of adjudicative authority. §18:9. Ultimate responsibility for the care of inmates cannot be delegated. IV. The state action doctrine. §18:10. Generally. V. Defenses available to private prisons. §18:11. Appropriateness of qualified immunity and good - faith. §18:12. Qualified immunity. §18:13. The good - faith defense. VI. The Bivens Doctrine applied to damage actions by federal inmates against private prison corporations and private prison officials. §18:14. Generally. §18:15. Actions against private prison staff. Appendices. Appendix A. Uniform Laws Annotated Model Sentencing and Corrections Act. Appendix B. Department of Justice federal Standards for Prisons and Jails December 16, 1980. Appendix C. Test of the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Appendix D. Test of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000. Appendix E. Test of the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003. Appendix F. Standards for the prevention, detection, response, and monitoring of sexual abuse in adult prisons and jails including supplemental standards for facilities with immigration detainees. Includes summary of contents, table of contents, appendixes, table of laws and rules, table of cases and subject index.

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Rev. ed. of : Rights of prisoners / James J. Gobert, Neil P. Cohen. c1981.

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