ABSTRACT
The eight areas of prisoner complaints that have been most frequently litigated by the courts in recent years-use of force, visitation and association rights, mail, isolated confi nement, religious rights, legal services, disciplinary proceedings, and parole-have been discussed in Chapters 3 through 9. This chapter will discuss four fact situations that are faced less frequently by the judiciary, but are nevertheless of importance to both prisoners and prison administrators. The four areas to be discussed are: (1) a prisoner’s right to rehabilitation programs; (2) a prisoner’s right to medical aid; (3) the death row prisoner’s right to life as enunciated by Supreme Court cases concerning the use of death as a criminal penalty; and (4) a prisoner’s civil disabilities.
