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Beard, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections v. Banks, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated
The issue of whether restricting the availability of newspapers, magazines, and photographs to level 2 inmates housed in the ...
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Added: October 31, 2006
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Corrections Law Overview
Links to websites with correctional law resources can be found at this website. The Menu of Source Material includes: state ...
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Wilkinson, Director, Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction, et at. v. Austin et al.
The court held theta the "procedures by which Ohio's New Policy classifies prisoners for placement at its Supermax facility ...
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Roper, Superintendent, Potosi Correctional Center v. Simmons, Certiorari to the Supreme Court of Missouri; Roper v. Simmons
"Held: The Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments forbid imposition of the death penalty on offenders who were under the age of ...
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Lockyer, Attorney General of California v. Andrade, Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
The court held that "the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth District erred in ruling that the California Court of ...
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Atkins v. Virginia Certiorari to the Supreme Court of Virginia
The court held that "[e]xecutions of mentally retarded criminals are 'cruel and unusual punishments' prohibited by the ...
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Ring v. Arizona Certiorari to the Supreme Court of Arizona
The court held that "Arizona's capital sentencing scheme violates the Sixth Amendment's jury trial guarantee by entrusting ...
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McKune v. Lile
A syllabus for the U.S. Supreme Court's opinion on McKune v. Lile is provided. This case involved the refusal of an inmate ...
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United States v. Knights Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Court
This decision held that the "warrantless search of Knights, supported by reasonable suspicion and authorized by a probation ...
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Garner, Former Chairman of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles of Georgia, et al. v. Jones, Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Court
The U.S. Supreme Court reversed and remanded the 11th Circuit Court's decision. In effect, the Supreme Court ruled that the ...
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Added: October 31, 2006
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