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The need for more litigating (and teaching) of prisoners' rights

By Douglas A. Berman

As hinted in this post discussing parts of the terrific U Penn Eighth Amendment symposium last week, I came away from the conference thinking that a lot more lawyer (and law school) time and energy should be devoted to dealing with modern prisoner rights' issues in our massive modern criminal justice system.  Responding to my request, Prof. Margo Schlanger, who's the Director of the Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse at Washington University in St. Louis, sent me this prisoner litigation primer for posting here: The best available written introduction to the law in this area is the Jailhouse Lawyer's Manual, published and updated periodically by the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, most recently in 2007, and available here:  http://www...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 22, 2008 (boomark / email).