About Correctional Law Reporter

Written by one of the nation’s foremost legal authorities on conditions of confinement and inmate rights, with guest contributions from experts in constitutional law, psychology and psychiatry, health care, and public policy, Correctional Law Reporter analyzes the most important appellate rulings on issues ranging from inmate access to medical and mental health care to religious freedom, prison rape, solitary confinement, living conditions, access to the courts, mental and physical disability, reentry planning, grievance procedures—just about every issue and concern faced by inmates and their families.  CLR selects decisions with the greatest precedential value, examines the facts and arguments, and parses the reasoning in each opinion with insight and frankness.  If you need to know where the law is headed, what ideas and arguments are prevailing, and where the best opportunities for progress are, there is no better source.

For jail and prison administrators …

Prison management is coming under new scrutiny.  Courts are ordering prisons to reduce overcrowding, and provide higher standards of medical and mental health care.  State and federal governments are looking at practices like the use of solitary confinement.  Corrections budgets are under a microscope, too, as a growing number of citizens rebel against government spending they view as out of control.

When fundamental change happens in America, the law always plays an important role—sometimes, in areas like civil rights, the law becomes the principle agent of change.  That is likely to be the case in corrections, where so many Constitutional issues are implicated.  And that is also why so many of your colleagues read each new issue of Correctional Law Reporter eagerly—to stay current on changes that affect you, your facility and staff, and your profession.

For advocates …

Advocates working on behalf of inmates in civil rights cases discover early on that it is not enough to have the facts on your side.  Defendants, usually a state or local government, benefit from vastly superior resources—both financial and institutional—and from high court rulings that are exceedingly deferential to prison and jail operators.  Simply put, when an advocate faces off against a correctional facility, success depends on an exceptionally strong case built on the right precedent and expertly reasoned argument.

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