Reform and Regret The Story of Federal Judicial Involvement in the Alabama Prison System

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This book provides a descriptive analysis of the campaign to achieve prison reform in Alabama through the federal courts.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Larry W. Yackle, Larry W. (Professor of Law Yackle, Yackle Larry W.
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 15.06.1989
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Diritto > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie
• EAN: 9780195057379
• ISBN: 978-0-19-505737-9
• Numero di pagine: 336
• Serie: Oxford University Press
• Categorie: USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, LAW / Constitutional, United States of America, USA, Penology and punishment, Penology & punishment, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general