Non-case excerpts and supplemental documents

PART I: CONDITIONS OF CONFINEMENT

PART II: CIVIL LIBERTIES

  • Eric Blackmon, Litigating from the Inside (2019)
  • Protecting Religious Freedom after Boerne v. Flores, Hearing before the Subcomm. on the Constitution of the H. Judiciary Comm., 105th Cong., App. at 65-70 (July 14, 1997)
    • Includes: Office of the Florida Att’y General, Preliminary Results of the RFRA Survey of All States: The Impact of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act on State Correctional Systems (July 19, 1996)
  • None

PART III: PARTICULAR PRISONER POPULATIONS

  • None

PART IV: LITIGATION AND REMEDIES

  • Sen. Spencer Abraham, Introductory statement for the Prison Conditions Litigation Reform Act, 141 Cong. Rec. S14312–03, 1995 WL 566447 (Sept. 26, 1995)
  • None
  • Senator Jon Kyl, Top 10 Frivolous Inmate Lawsuits Nationally, 141 Cong. Rec. S14611–01 (Sept. 29, 1995).  See p. S14628-9.
  • Margo Schlanger & Betsy Ginsberg, Pandemic Rules: COVID-19 and the Prison Litigation Reform Act’s Exhaustion Requirement,
    72 Case Western Res. L. Rev (2022)
  • None
  • ABA Criminal Justice Standards (3d ed.), Treatment of Prisoners (2011)
    • Introduction: Commentary on the Purpose of Standards
    • Part III: Conditions of Confinement
    • Part XI: Accountability and Oversight
  • American Correctional Association, Performance-Based Expected Practices for Adult Correctional Institutions (5th Ed. 2018) (Updated March 2020, here)
  • Joanna Carns, Director, [Washington State] Office of the Corrections Ombuds, Annual Report 2019 (Nov. 1, 2019) 
  • Michele Deitch, Distinguishing the Various Functions of Effective Prison Oversight, 30 Pace L. Rev. 1438 (2010)
  • Nicole D. Porter, Voting in Jails
    The Sentencing Project (May 7, 2022)