Prisoners’ Rights

Date

1988

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Publisher

Texas Tech Law Review

Abstract

This article takes notice of contemporary Fifth Circuit decisions relating to the rights of prisoners, primarily those suits pursuing injunctive relief or damages due to substandard prison conditions. While in the author’s estimation these decisions further a trend toward the constriction of substantive rights and remedies available in individual cases, the court often upheld broad remedies and continued judicial oversight where evidence of systemic constitutional rights violations in the prison system existed.

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Keywords

Fifth Circuit, Prisoner rights, Section 1983 action, Constitutional rights, Tight-celling, Municipal liability, Supervisory liability

Citation

19 Tex. Tech L. Rev. 797