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An Introduction to the Law of Corrections: Preventive Law for Corrections Employees 1972

by William Statsky, Adjunct Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law

(These materials were prepared for a training program Bill conducted at Soledad Prison in California for prison guards)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

1. An Introduction to Preventive Law

2. Distinguishing Between Rights and Privileges

• Goldberg v. Kelly
• Clutchette v. Procunier

3. Understanding How Courts Reason: Dangers and Questions

• Surprise: Notice
• Arbitrariness: Standards
• Pressure: Informed Consent
• Legal Bias: Cross-Checking
• Discipline: Hearing
• Undue Emphasis on Security and Cost
• Good Faith Effort to Try Less Drastic Alternatives

4. Identifying Legal problems Within Our Criminal Justice System: The Case History of peter Smith

• Juvenile delinquency
• Criminal Commitment
• Criminal Commitment
• Civil Commitment

5. New Crimes Committed in Prison: The Exclusionary rule

6. Access to the courts

7. Religion in the Institution

8. Speech in the Institution

9. Cruel and Unusual Punishment