Mini-Paper: Prisoner’s Rights Assignment
Kourtni Giles T.
CJUS 320-D03
Dr. Gage
15 November 2021
In the United States, Prisoner’s rights have four legal foundaons: the U.S. Constuon, federal
statutes, state constuons, and state statutes (Schmalleger & Smykla, 2021). The three addional legal
foundations to the U.S. Constuon, most oen mirror the laws it contains and could grant
supplementary prisoners’ rights. When discussing these separate legal foundaons within the United
States legal system, understanding how they all work in cohesion and within their respecve legal
connes is pernent ensuring the rights prisoners not violated. to of are
The U.S. Constution is the most absolute document of law and direcves within the United
States legal and polical systems. When the issue of prisoner rights being violated arises, what the
