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Chapter 1. Prison, Jail, and Prisoners' Rights: An Introduction
Ruffin v. Commonwealth
, 62 Va. 790 (1871)
Cooper v. Pate
, 378 U.S. 546 (1964) (per curiam)
Cooper v. Pate
, 324 F.2d 165 (7th Cir. 1963)
PART I: CONDITIONS OF CONFINEMENT
Chapter 2. Conditions of Confinement
Bell v. Wolfish
, 441 U.S. 520 (1979)
Castro v. County of Los Angeles
, 833 F.3d 1060 (9th Cir. 2016) (en banc)
Estelle v. Gamble
, 429 U.S. 97 (1976)
Farmer v. Brennan
, 511 U.S. 825 (1994)
Helling v. McKinney
, 509 U.S. 25 (1993)
Hope v. Pelzer
, 536 U.S. 730 (2002)
Hudson v. McMillian
, 503 U.S. 1 (1992)
Hutto v. Finney
, 437 U.S. 678 (1978)
Jackson v. Bishop
, 404 F.2d 571 (8th Cir. 1968)
Kingsley v. Hendrickson
, ___ U.S. ___, 135 S.Ct. 2466 (2015)
Rhodes v. Chapman
, 452 U.S. 337 (1981)
Whitley v. Albers
, 475 U.S. 312 (1986)
Wilson v. Seiter
, 501 U.S. 294 (1991)
Wilson v. Williams
, 961 F.3d 829 (6th Cir. 2020) (in the
2022 supplement
)
Chapter 3. Solitary Confinement
Davis v. Ayala
, 576 U.S. ___, 135 S.Ct. 2187 (2015)
In re Medley
, 134 U.S. 160 (1890)
Porter v. Clarke
, 923 F.3d 348 (4th Cir. 2019), as amended
Chapter 4. Programming, Work, and Reentry
Laaman v. Helgemoe
, 437 F.Supp. 269 (D. N.H. 1977)
Vanskike v. Peters
, 974 F.2d 806 (7th Cir. 1992)
Chapter 5. Sexual Abuse
Crawford v. Cuomo
, 796 F.3d 252 (2d Cir. 2015)
Graham v. Sheriff of Logan County
, 741 F.3d 1118 (10th Cir. 2013)
Jacoby v. PREA Coordinator
, No. 5:17-cv-00053-MHH-TMP, 2017 WL 2962858 (N.D. Ala. Apr. 4, 2017),
Report and recommendation adopted
, 2017 WL 2957825 (N.D. Ala. July 11, 2017)
Johnson v. Phelan
, 69 F.3d 144 (7th Cir. 1995)
Jordan v. Gardner
, 986 F.2d 1521 (9th Cir. 1993) (en banc)
PART II: CIVIL LIBERTIES
Chapter 6. Freedom of Expression and Religion
Beard v. Banks
, 548 U.S. 521 (2006)
Holt v. Hobbs
, 574 U.S. 352 (2015)
Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners’ Labor Union, Inc
., 433 U.S. 119 (1977)
O’Lone v. Shabazz
, 482 U.S. 342 (1987)
Overton v. Bazzetta
, 539 U.S. 126 (2003)
Prison Legal News v. Cook
, 238 F.3d 1145 (9th Cir. 2001)
Procunier v. Martinez
, 416 U.S. 396 (1974)
Singer v. Raemisch
, 593 F.3d 529 (7th Cir. 2010)
Thornburgh v. Abbott
, 490 U.S. 401 (1989)
Chapter 7. Access to the Courts
Bounds v. Smith
, 430 U.S. 817 (1977)
Ex parte Hull
, 312 U.S. 546 (1941)
Lewis v. Casey
, 518 U.S. 343 (1996) (excerpted in Chapter 14)
Johnson v. Avery
, 393 U.S. 483 (1969)
Procunier v. Martinez
, 416 U.S. 396 (1974)
Chapter 8. Procedural Due Process
Meachum v. Fano
, 427 U.S. 215 (1976)
Morrissey v. Brewer
, 408 U.S. 471 (1972)
Olim v. Wakinekona
, 461 U.S. 238 (1983)
Sandin v. Conner
, 515 U.S. 472 (1995)
Superintendent, Mass. Correctional Institution at Walpole v. Hill
, 472 U.S. 445 (1985)
Vitek v. Jones
, 445 U.S. 480 (1980)
Wilkinson v. Austin
, 545 U.S. 209 (2005)
Wolff v. McDonnell,
418 U.S. 539 (1974)
Chapter 9. Searches
Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders
, 566 U.S. 318 (2012)
Hudson v. Palmer
, 468 U.S. 517 (1984)
Swain v. Spinney
, 117 F.3d 1 (1st Cir. 1997)
PART III: PARTICULAR PRISONER POPULATIONS
Chapter 10. Race and National Origin Discrimination
Johnson v. California
, 543 U.S. 499 (2005)
Lee v. Washington
, 390 U.S. 333 (1968)
Richardson v. Runnels
, 594 F.3d 666 (9th Cir. 2010)
Washington v. Lee
, 263 F.Supp. 327 (M.D. Ala. 1966)
Chapter 11. Women Prisoners
Nelson v. Correctional Medical Services
, 583 F.3d 522 (8th Cir. 2009)
Roe v. Crawford
, 514 F.3d 789 (8th Cir. 2008)
Southerland v. Thigpen
, 784 F.2d 713 (5th Cir. 1986)
Women Prisoners of D.C. Dept. of Corrections v. District of Columbia
, 93 F. 3d 910 (D.C. Cir. 1996)
Chapter 12. LGBTQ Prisoners
Davis v. Prison Health Service
, 679 F.3d 433 (6th Cir. 2012)
Edmo v. Corizon, Inc
., 935 F.3d 757 (9th Cir. 2019)
Hampton v. Baldwin
, No. 3:18-cv-550-NJR-RJD, 2018 WL 5830730 (S.D. Ill. 2018)
Johnson v. Johnson
, 385 F.3d 503 (5th Cir. 2004)
Monroe v. Baldwin
, 424 F.Supp.3d 526 (S.D. Ill. Dec. 19, 2019)
Chapter 13. Disability
Andrews v. Rauner
, No. 3:18-cv-1101, 2018 WL 3748401 (C.D. Ill. Aug. 6, 2018)
McBride v. Michigan Department of Corrections
, 294 F.Supp.3d 695 (E.D. Mich. 2018)
United States v. Georgia
, 546 U.S. 151 (2006)
PART IV: LITIGATION AND REMEDIES
Chapter 14. Injunctive Litigation
Badgley v. Santacroce
, 800 F.2d 33 (2d Cir. 1986)
Brown v. Plata
, 563 U.S. 493 (2011)
Hutto v. Finney
, 437 U.S. 678 (1978)
Lewis v. Casey
, 518 U.S. 343 (1996)
Miller v. French
, 530 U.S. 327 (2000)
Valentine v. Collier
, 140 S.Ct. 1598 (2020) (in
2022 Supplement
)
Chapter 15. Damages: Causes of Action and Defenses
Cohen v. United States
, 151 F.3d 1338 (11th Cir. 1998)
Corrections Services Corp. v. Malesko
, 534 U.S. 61 (2001)
Hope v. Pelzer
, 536 U.S. 730 (2002)
United States v. Muniz
, 374 U.S. 150 (1963)
Ziglar v. Abbasi
, 137 S.Ct 1843 (2017)
Chapter 16. The Litigation Process
Ross v. Blake
, 136 S.Ct. 1850 (2016)
Woodford v. Ngo
, 548 U.S. 81 (2006)
Chapter 17. Private Prisons and Prison Contractors
Richardson v. McKnight
, 521 U.S. 399 (1997)
West v. Atkins
, 487 U.S. 42 (1988)
Chapter 18. Criminal Prosecution of Prison/Jail Staff
Screws v. United States
, 325 U.S. 91 (1945)
United States v. Hickman
, 766 Fed. Appx. 240 (6th Cir. 2019)
Chapter 19. Accountability: Voting, Standards, and External Oversight
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Chapter 20. The COVID-19 Pandemic Behind Bars
Comm. for Public Counsel Svcs v. Chief Justice of the Trial Ct.
, 142 N.E.3d 525 (Mass. 2020)