NCJ Number
130979
Date Published
1990
Length
32 pages
Annotation
Material for participants in a training conference on 1990 legal issues in jails focuses on inmate rights versus institutional interests, judicial remedies for noncompliance with court orders, jail personnel issues, and legislation that impacts jail management of inmates with AIDS.
Abstract
The summaries of formal conference presentations include a presentation of criteria used by the U.S. Supreme Court to balance inmate rights with institutional interests, a presentation that examines some of the post-judgment remedies ordered by courts when jail population limits could not be maintained, a review of jail personnel issues, a discussion of legal parameters dealing with the management of inmates with AIDS, and conference materials that include outlines of court cases bearing upon the management of jail inmates with AIDS. The format for each case outline encompasses case facts, the issue, the ruling, and the reasons. Also included in the conference materials is a memorandum of legal principles that underlie the validity of Federal court orders to control jail overcrowding. Various articles from issues of the "Correctional Law Reporter" discuss conference issues.