Legal Aspects of Corrections Management

Legal Aspects of Corrections Management continues to provide a comprehensive and engaging presentation of contemporary legal issues impacting corrections management in a thoroughly updated fourth edition. Written for students who do not have a law background, the author uses case law to explain how the First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments relate to the day-to-day issues of running a prison, jail, and other corrections programs, including probation and parole. Topics covered in the extensively updated Fourth Edition include inmate access to the courts, correspondence, visitors, and religion; search, seizure, and privacy; inmate discipline, classification, and transfers; personal injuries and property loss; equal protection for female offenders; conditions of confinement; health care, and more timely discussions. With Legal Aspects of Corrections Management, Fourth Edition students will learn how laws and court decisions drive the creation of correctional policies in America's jails and prisons and understand the legal processes, precedents, and potential issues they can expect to experience managing a correctional facility. Chapters include the latest Supreme Court cases through the 2019-2020 term New sections address modern and evolving issues, such as an analysis of conditions of confinement in detention facilities (jails) after Kingsley v. Hendrickson in 2015 Chapter 16 on health care includes analysis of several recent federal appellate court decisions related to the COVID-19 Pandemic New and updated Thinking About It case studies promote discussion based on chapter objectives Each new print copy is packaged with an access code to the Navigate eBook, featuring embedded web links to help students further understand the presented concepts and theories Instructor resources include an Instructor's Manual, Test Bank, and Lecture Slides in PowerPoint format Legal Aspects of Corrections Legal Issues in Corrections Correctional Law Law and Institutional Treatment Corrections Management Strategies in Corrections Management Correctional Administration and Legal Rights of Inmates Constitutional Rights of Prisoners (c) 2022 500 pages