Prisoners' Rights

4. Court ruled prisons could not ban law students and legal paraprofessional altogether unless another legitimate way was offered for all inmates to access the Courts
8. Administration of the prisons was left to the prison administrators
9. secure in houses, papers, effects, right against unreasonable search and seizure,
11. Ruling that effectively ended corporal punishment in prison
12. Immunity protection for corrections officers and police officers
14. Right to Substantive Due Process and Equal Protection
15. Court ruled that inmates may assist other inmates in preparing habeas corpus petitions
16. Right to speedy, public trial, Impartial Jury, Jury Trial, Notice of Accusation, Right to confront and cross examine, Right to jurisdiction, Assistance of Counsel

1. Immunity protection for judges, prosecutors, legislators, president
2. formally 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act
3. Forced prisons to open law libraries
5. rights of prisoners are the same as the previous slaves
6. adequacy of legal assistance for civil rights petitions shall be determined under Johnson v Avery
7. “There is no iron curtain between the and the prisons in this country”
10. Court ruled that“ the state and its officers may not abridge or impair a petitioner’s right to apply to a federal court for writ of habeas corpus.”
13. Adequacy of law libraries