Learning Objectives

  • Understand what relevance Packer’s (1997) two models of criminal justice have for prisoners’ rights
  • Know the different legal “periods” identified in terms of prisoners’ rights
  • Identify issues and cases involving the First, Fourth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments
  • Identify issues involved with the civil commitment of sex offenders
  • Know how and why prisoners’ petitions have been curtailed