Prisoners do not forfeit their constitutional rights when they enter the prison gates. In Turner v. Safley, Justice O'Connor wrote: "Prison walls do not form a barrier separating prison inmates from the protections of the Constitution." However, because prisoners are in the unique position of being under government supervision 24 hours a day, some contend that prisoners are the persons most in need of judicial review to protect the constitutional freedoms they still possess.
This course introduces participants to the leading cases and tests their knowledge with a series of fact patterns from real appellate cases.