Reference no: EM133267996
1. The courts have employed tow (2) main standards, or tests, to determine whether a punishment is cruel and unusual.
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2. The Fourteenth Amendment is applicable and used to review use of force in correctional institutions.
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3. Corrections personnel may lawfully use force against inmates in one of five situations.
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4. Prison disciplinary hearings are administrative matters, not criminal trials.
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5. Jails perform the same functions as prisons in the criminal justice system.
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6. Jails are used to confine probation, parole, and bond violators and absconders.
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7. The state government operates and funds jails in most jurisdictions.
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8. Classifying inmates is more difficult in jails than prisons because officials often have limited information about inmates.
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9. The U.S. Supreme Court decided its most important case concerning the rights of jail inmates in Bell v. Wolfish (1979).
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10. In Bell v. Wolfish (1979), the Supreme Court based its legal analysis on the Eighth Amendment's "cruel and unusual " clause.
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11. Justice Thurgood Marshall, in the Bell v. Wolfish (1979) case, argued in his dissent that un-convicted detainees should have greater constitutional protections.
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12. One of the least important issues for jail administrators is preventing inmate suicides.
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13. In Farmer v. Brennan (1994), the Supreme Court ruled that a correctional official can not be held liable for injury to an inmate if they knew he/she faced a substantial risk of serious harm and disregarded that risk by failing to take measures to lessen it.
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14. Jail and prison officials are liable for an inmate's suicide if there is evidence the officials were actually aware of specific facts that indicate an inmate was at a substantial risk and then deliberately failed to take reasonable steps to avoid it.
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15. Jails are very different correctional environment than prison because they do more.
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16. Although the U.S. Supreme Court decides several prison law cases each year, it hears very few cases involving probation and parole.
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17. Parole is an extension of incarceration.
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18. Courts and parole boards have narrow authority to impose probation and parole conditions.
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19. Probation and parole conditions are often challenged on the grounds of vagueness.
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20. Unequal enforcement of probation and parole conditions can be the basis for liability under the "cruel and unusual' punishment clause of the Eighth Amendment.
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21. Under 42 U.S.C. section 1983, state officials must be sued in their official capacities.
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22. The doctrine of respondeat superior can be applied to any section 1983 lawsuit.
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23. The Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) was enacted in 1996 to respond to four (4) concerns.
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24. One of the Prison Litigation Reform Act's (PLRA) most important provisions requires prisoners to exhaust any remedies available through their inmate grievance systems before they can file a lawsuit.
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25. Under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), an order to make reductions in a prison population must come from a five-judge panel, rather than a single federal court judge.
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