Chapter 5: The Law of Corrections Crossword

The aggregate of circumstances in a correctional facility that, when considered as a whole, may violate the protections guaranteed by the Eighth Amendment, even though such guarantees are not violated by any single condition in the institution
Any threat to security or to the safety of individuals that is so obvious and compelling that the need to counter it overrides the guarantees of the First Amendment
A test that requires that a regulation provide a reasonable, rational method of advancing a legitimate institutional goal.
The constitutional guarantee that no agent or instrumentality of government will use any procedures other than those prescribed by law to arrest, prosecute, try, or punish any person
Law created by the people's elected representatives in legislatures
Legal rules, usually set by an agency of the executive branch, designed to implement in detail the policies of that agency
Fundamental law contained in a state or federal document that provides a design of government and lists basic rights for individuals
A judicial policy of noninterference concerning the internal administration of prisons
The constitutional guarantee that the law will be applied equally to all people, without regard for such individual characteristics as gender, race, and religion
A method that is a means of ensuring a legitimate state interest (such as security) that impose fewer limits to prisoners' rights than do alternative means of securing that end
A writ (judicial order) asking a person holding another person to produce the prisoner and to give reasons to justify continued confinement
Legal rules created in judges' decisions that serve to guide the decisions of other judges in subsequent similar cases
A public official who investigates complaints against government officials and recommends corrective measures
Intervention in a dispute by a third party to whom the parties in conflict submit their differences for resolution and whose decision (in the correctional setting) is binding on both parties
Legal rules produced by judges' decisions
Responsibility for the provision of monetary or other compensation awarded to a plaintiff in a civil action
An interest of the state that must take precedence over rights guaranteed by the First Amendment