• Bureau of Justice Statistics on the prevalence of incarceration, supp. 1-3
• Materials from the Sentencing Project and Michael Tonry on prisoners and demographics (numbers and race), supp. 4-11
• Margo Schlanger, The difference between jails and prisons (2003), supp. 12-20

• Complete discretion: Cooper v. Pate, 324 F.2d 165 (7th Cir. 1963) (subsequently rev'd, 378 U.S. 546 (1964)), supp. 21-25
• Lots of discretion:  Turner v. Safley (U.S. 1987),  pp. 505-513 (in the casebook)
• Some discretion:  Johnson v. California (U.S. 2005), pp. 667-679.
• Very little discretion:  Jackson v. Bishop (8th Cir. 1968), pp. 811-815.

1. Background on prison conditions
   ● Medical care:
       Private Health Care in Jails Can Be A Death Sentence,
       N.Y. Times (Feb. 27, 2005), supp. 26-40
   ● Inmate-on-inmate violence: 
       Human Rights Watch, No Escape: Male Rape in U.S. Prisons (summary)
       supp. 41-55
       David Grann, The Brand, The New Yorker (Feb. 16&23, 2004),
       supp. 56-70
   ● Staff abuse, and other issues:
       U.S. Department of Justice findings letter re. unconstitutional conditions
       at the Shelby County Jail (June 27, 2001). supp. 71-90.
    
2. Rights: Cases
   ● Jackson v. Bishop, again, pp. 811-815.
   ● Estelle v. Gamble (U.S. 1976), pp. 770-775
   ● Rhodes v. Chapman (U.S. 1981), pp. 788-798
      (includes notes on Bell v. Wolfish, Hutto v. Finney)
   ● Wilson v. Seiter (U.S. 1991), pp. 802-803 & add'l excerpt
   ● Hudson v. McMillian (U.S. 1992), pp. 816-821 & add'l excerpt
   ● Helling v. McKinney (U.S. 1993), pp. 801-802 & add'l excerpt
   ● Farmer v. Brennan (U.S. 1994), pp. 803-808
    
3. Remedies: Cases and Materials
   ● Statutes: 
   42 U.S.C. § 1983, supp. 91
   Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act ("CRIPA"), selected sections, supp. 92-93
   Prison Litigation Reform Act ("PLRA")
        18 U.S.C. § 3626 (injunctions), supp. 94-96
        42 U.S.C. § 1997e (exhaustion and emotional injury), supp. 97
   Prison Rape Elimination Act ("PREA") [NOTE: I will edit this prior to assigning it]
   18 U.S.C. §§ 241, 242, supp. 98
   
   ● Litigation
   Schlanger, Beyond the Hero Judge, 97 Mich. L. Rev. 1994 (1999) (excerpted).
   Schlanger, Trends in Prison Lawsuits (2005)
   Docket and injunctions from the Wash. U. Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse [TO BE LINKED]
   Granting injunctions: Lewis v. Casey (U.S. 1996), pp. 566-576
   Modifying injunctions: Rufo v. Inmates of the Suffolk County Jail (U.S. 1992), pp. 873-886 (includes some notes)
   Terminating injunctions: Miller v. French (U.S. 2000), pp. 887-895
   
   ● The Section 5 issue [NOT ASSIGNED]
   Americans with Disabilities Act, Title II
   Goodman v. Georgia (currently pending in U.S. Sup. Ct.)
   [READING TBA]

1. Personal/property injuries
   ● Parratt v. Taylor (U.S. 1981), pp. 749-751
   ● Daniels v. Williams (U.S. 1986), pp. 743-746
   ● Zinermon v. Burch (U.S. 1990), pp. 752-758
    
2. Discipline and classification
   Rights:
   ● Wolff v. McDonnell (U.S. 1974), pp. 583-597
   ● Superintendent, MCI Walpole v. Hill (U.S. 1985), pp. 603-606
   ● ABA Standards for Criminal Justice (Legal Status of Prisoners), 23-3, pp. 610-612
   ● Meachum v. Fano (U.S. 1976), pp. 618-622
   ● Sandin v. Conner (U.S. 1995), pp. 625-632
   ● Hewitt v. Helms (U.S. 1983), pp. 635-638
   ● Wilkinson v. Austin (U.S. 2005), pp. 640-647
       [Background material on supermax confinement to be posted]
   
   Remedial issues: Habeas or Section 1983?
   ● Preiser v. Rodriguez, Heck v. Humphrey, Edwards v. Balisok, Spencer v. Kemna, Muhammad v. Close, Wilkinson v. Dotson -- pp. 865-868

          ● Bell v. Wolfish (U.S. 1979), pp. 705-709
          ● Current controversy:  Jails and strip search litigation
              [READING TBA]
 

1. Race discrimination
   ● Washington v. Lee (M.D. Ala. 1966), aff'd (U.S. 1968)
   ● Johnson v. California (U.S. 2005), pp. 667-679 (repeat)
   ● Lamar v. Coffield (S.D. Tex. 1977), consent decree
   Article: Chad Trulson & James W. Marquart, The Caged Melting Pot: Toward an Understanding of the Consequences of Desegregation in Prison, 36 Law & Soc'y Rev 743.
   Optional reading: Lamar v. Coffield, 951 F. Supp. 629 (S.D. Tex. 1996)
    
2. Sex discrimination
   ● Women Prisons of the District of Columbia v. District of Columbia ( D.C. Cir. 1998), pp. 681-692

1. Constitutional rights:
   The Free Exercise Clause
   ● Cooper v. Pate (reprise)
   ● O'Lone v. Estate of Shabazz, pp. 532-541
   ● The Church of the New Song ("CONS"):
        Theriault (W.D. Tex. 1975)
        Remmers (S.D. Iowa 1973)
       N.Y. Times article (1972)
   ● Seattle Weekly article (2006)
   ● Kurtzer, Note, In the Belly of the Beast, 115 Harv. L. Rev. 1891 (2002) (this looks 25 pages long, but you can read just the text, not the footnotes, and it'll be much shorter)
   
   The Establishment Clause
   ● Majority opinion in Lemon v. Kurtzman
   ● Williams v. Lara (Tex. 2001)
   ● Americans United for Separation of Church and State v. Prison Fellowship Ministries, Complaint.

   Please think about the inevitable motion for summary judgment to be filed by the defendants in the Prison Ministries case; I'll ask you in class two questions. First, which applies, the Turner test or the Lemon test? Second, what should be in such a motion for it to win, under either standard?

2. Statutory rights/remedies
   ● Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act ("RLUIPA"), as excerpted at pp. 544-545; also reproduced in pertinent part here.
   ● Cutter v. Wilkinson.
   ● The Section 5/Spending Clause/Commerce Clause issues. 

          ● Procunier v. Martinez (U.S. 1974), pp. 492-498
             (includes some notes)
          ● Turner v. Safley, reprise (U.S. 1987),  pp. 505-513
          ● Block v. Rutherford (U.S. 1984), pp. 521-528
          ● Overton v. Bazzetta (U.S. 2003), pp. 529-530

          ● Ex parte Hull (U.S. 1941), pp.549-550
          ● Procunier v. Martinez (N.B., it's a different excerpt) (U.S. 1974),
             pp. 552-554
          ● Johnson v. Avery (U.S. 1969), pp. 558-562 (including note 1)
             [Material on jailhouse lawyering to be posted]
          ● Lewis v. Casey, again (U.S. 1996), pp. 566-576
          ● 28 U.S.C. § 1915 (as amended by the PLRA)
 

1. Background
   ● Michael Goldhaber, The Felon Vote,National Law Journal (Oct. 24, 2000)
    
2. Constitutional rights:
   ● Richardson v. Ramirez (U.S. 1974), pp. 433-441.
   ● Hunter v. Underwood (U.S. 1985), pp. 441
   ● Pam Karlan, Convictions and Doubts: Retribution, Representation, and the Debate over Felon Disenfranchisement, 56 Stan. L. Rev. 1147 (2004)
    
3. Statutory remedies: The Voting Rights Act and Section 5
   ● Farrakhan v. Washington (9th Cir. 2002)
   ● Muntaqim v. Coombe (2d Cir. 2004), and order granting reh'g en banc