Prisoner Law Course

Prisoner Law L-704
Spring Semester 2006
Professor Teresa A. Miller
11:30am - 1pm
107 O'Brian Hall

Prisoner Law concerns the laws regulating the rights and disabilities of incarcerated persons, as well as the duties of the State as custodian of the criminally accused and convicted. The course analyzes the breadth and limitations of the substantive rights of prisoners emanating primarily from the Bill of Rights, including the 1st, 4th, 5th, 8th, 13th and 14th Amendments. This course is particularly suited to students interested in the political, social and economic context in which difficult issues of criminal justice and fairness present themselves. Students will expand their first-year foundation in criminal law and constitutional law. This course may be described as an advanced study of constitutional law as it is applied in prisons.