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  • Submitted By: chip5055
  • Date Submitted: 04/11/2013 5:58 AM
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Administrative Officers- Control keys and weapons and sometimes visitation
Block Officer- Watch inmates in housing areas
Balancing Test- A method the U.S. Supreme Court uses to decide prisoners' rights cases. Claims determined by the legitimate needs of the prisoners.
Custodial Staff- hose staff members most directly involved in managing the inmate population.
CO Personalities-The distinctive personal characteristics of correctional officers, including behavioral, emotional, and social traits.
Constitutional Rights- The personal and due process rights guaranteed to individuals by the U.S. Constitution and its amendments, especially the first 10 amendments, known as the Bill of Rights. Constitutional rights are the basis of most inmate rights.
Civil Liability- A legal obligation to another person.
Compensatory Damages- Money a court may award as payment for actual losses suffered by a plaintiff, including out-of-pocket expenses incurred in filing the suit, other forms of monetary or material loss, and pain, suffering, and mental anguish.
Cruel and unusual punishment- (Estelle v. Gamble, 1976, and Hutto v. Finney, 1978)
Deprivation Theory- The belief that inmate subcultures develop in response to the deprivations in prison life
Due Process- A right guaranteed by the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and generally understood, in legal contexts, to mean the expected course of legal proceedings according to the rules and forms established for the protection of persons' rights
Deliberate Indifference- Conscious/reckless disregard of consequences of ones acts
Deprivation Theory- The belief that inmate subcultures develop in response to the deprivations in prison life
Ex parte Hull- Was the beginning of the end of the hands off doctrine (1941). Petition to hear prisoner grievances and complaints.
Frivolous Lawsuits- Lawsuits with no foundation in fact. They are generally brought for publicity, political, or other reasons not...

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