NCJ Number
94793
Date Published
1983
Length
182 pages
Annotation
This guide provides attorneys with practical suggestions for planning, preparing, and prosecuting lawsuits that seek to improve prisoner treatment in local jails.
Abstract
The introductory chapter describes the legal context, the importance of remedy, the political environment, and clients. The choice of forum, remedial options, and naming the proper defendents are addressed in the section on threshold decisions. Preliminary planning and research involves initial contact with plaintiffs, gathering documents, and preliminary tour. Further chapters address the use of experts, drafting the complaint, class actions, discovery, defenses in jail cases, proving the case, enforcing and defending a judgment, and attorney's fees. A total of 366 case notes are included. Leading Federal decisions and a list of correctional and other relevant standards are appended.