This is an engaging descriptive analysis of the campaign to achieve prison reform in Alabama through constitutional litigation in the federal courts. When the deplorable conditions in Alabama's shockingly overcrowded and understaffed prisons were revealed at a trial in 1975, Judge Frank Johnson declared that the prison system as a whole constituted a cruel punishment which was in violation of the eighth amendment. He issued an elaborate decree specifying improvements that were needed to satisfy constitutional standards. By 1988, federal judges had ordered wideranging reforms in the penal systems of thirty-seven states. This book outlines the background against which Judge Johnson acted, the process that produced the decree, and subsequent efforts to enforce his order in the face of bureaucratic inertia, administrative incompetence, and political demagogy.
ویراست دیگر از اثر در قالب دیگر رسانه
عنوان
Reform and regret.
شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي
9780195057379
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Criminal justice, Administration of-- Alabama.
موضوع مستند نشده
Prison administration-- Alabama.
موضوع مستند نشده
Prisoners-- Legal status, laws, etc.-- Alabama.
موضوع مستند نشده
Prisons-- Law and legislation-- Alabama.
موضوع مستند نشده
Criminal justice, Administration of.
موضوع مستند نشده
LAW-- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
موضوع مستند نشده
Prison administration.
موضوع مستند نشده
Prisoners-- Legal status, laws, etc.
موضوع مستند نشده
Prisons-- Law and legislation.
نام جغرافیایی به منزله موضوع
موضوع مستند نشده
Alabama.
بدون عنوان
7
مقوله موضوعی
موضوع مستند نشده
LAW-- 001000
موضوع مستند نشده
LJD
رده بندی ديویی
شماره
344
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761035
ويراست
22
رده بندی کنگره
شماره رده
KFA588
نشانه اثر
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Y33
1989eb
نام شخص به منزله سر شناسه - (مسئولیت معنوی درجه اول )