This text details critical information on all aspects of prison litigation, including information on trial and appeal, conditions of isolated confinement, access to the courts, parole, right to medical aid and liabilities of prison officials. Highlighted topics include application of the Americans with Disabilities Act to prisons, protection given to HIV-positive inmates, and actions of the Supreme Court and Congress to stem the flow of prison litigation. Part II contains Judicial Decisions Relating to Part I.

A Guide to Distance Learning Education Programs for Prisoners.

In the age of American mass incarceration, a complex legal regime governs prison conditions and presents a host of controversial questions at the intersection of constitutional liberty, statutory interpretation, administrative regulation, and public policy. This is a completely overhauled, re-titled, and much-expanded version of the leading casebook about incarceration. It addresses both pretrial and post-conviction incarceration, presenting Supreme Court and leading lower court case law, statutes, litigation materials, professional standards, academic commentary, and prisoner writing. Topics include conditions of confinement, civil liberties, particular prisoner populations and relevant legal issues (race and national origin discrimination, the particular issues/law governing treatment of incarcerated women, LGBTQ people, and people with disabilities). Litigated remedies (injunctive litigation, damages, the Prison Litigation Reform Act, and criminal prosecution of prison staff), are also covered in detail, as is non-litigation oversight. The casebook is supplemented by an open-access website that offers additional resources and sources for further reading.

Formerly called Battling the Administration: An Inmate's Guide to a Successful Lawsuit, this new edition has been renamed, revised, and updated. It provides all the significant legal theory that pertains to prisoners" litigations, over a thousand case citations, sample pleadings and forms, and detailed directions for pursuing a lawsuit from beginning to end. What this manual has that other prisoner self-help guides do not is information about HOW TO ACTUALLY WIN your case. A winning case depends on your EVIDENCE and how you present it to a court. This book teaches you how to organize your case, write legal papers, argue your issues, and obtain admissible evidence. Many prisoners lose lawsuits not because of ignorance of the law, but they lacked the right kind of proof.