Week 5 Project: Prisoners' Rights

You work in the administrative office of a correctional facility and handle complaints about violations of prisoners' rights. A conference on prisoners' rights is being held in the near future. Your supervisor asks you to study a report on violations of prisoners' rights and prepare a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation for the conference. The presentation will include an analysis of how courts handle cases of violation of prisoners' rights.

In your presentation:

• Identify trends in the most common prisoner issues and the way courts handle violations of prisoners' rights.
• Focus on the following six issues:
  • Living conditions
  • Medical and mental health care
  • Physical security
  • Fourth Amendment rights
  • Religious freedom
  • Access to a law library, courts, and lawyers
• Provide an innovative solution (for any one of these issues) to resolve the problem.

For more information on prisoners' rights, visit:

https://www.aclu.org/issues/prisoners-rights