Directions: You will need to prepare a paper on your analysis of prisoner complaints and the increasing litigation that correctional facilities have to handle. You work in the administrative office of a correctional facility and handle complaints about violations of prisoners' rights. A conference on prisoners' rights is shortly due. Your supervisor asks you to study a report about the violation of prisoners' rights and prepare a discussion paper for the conference. The paper should include an analysis of prisoner complaints and the increasing litigation that correctional facilities have to handle. 

Tasks:

Prisoners have numerous individual rights while serving their sentences of incarceration. Although many lawsuits filed by prisoners, claiming that their rights are being violated by their conditions of confinement, ultimately are rejected by the courts, a fair amount of litigation does support specific and individual prisoner rights that correctional institutions must respect. 

In this paper, you need to:

• Identify the trends in the most common prisoner issues and the ways in which the courts are handling these issues. 
• Focus on the following issues raised by the inmates at your facility:
o Medical care
o Personal rights
o Discipline and due process
o Rights of women
o Access to courts and lawyers
• List the prison standards and rules on the five issues above.
• Provide innovative solutions that can be used to resolve these issues.

You can refer to the AAU Library or Internet for additional resources to complete this paper, including but not limited to: 

• National Institute of Corrections, Prisoners Rights Resources: http://www.nicic.org/Library/020150
• National Institute of Corrections, ABA Justice Kennedy Commission Recommendations: http://www.nicic.org/Library/019725
• American Association of Law Libraries, Prisoner Rights Web Sites: http://www.aallnet.org/sis/srsis/links/prisonerrights.html
• Worldwide human rights organization Web site; search for "prisons": http://hrw.org
• American Civil Liberties Union site on prisoners' rights: http://www.aclu.org/prison/index.html
• Bureau of Justice Statistics: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov

Deliverables and Format: 

Your paper should be four to six pages long (not including the cover page or reference page) in double-spaced Arial, 12-point font. Submit your paper in a Microsoft Word document with the following sections:

1. Cover page
2. Introduction
3. Main body of the text
4. Summary and conclusions
5. Reference page