THE SUPREME-COURT AND PRISONERS RIGHTS

Author Jack E. Call takes a comprehensive look at the prisoners' right s law established by the Supreme Court, examining cases both chronolog ically and by subject area. He reports that the Court is presently in a period in which it largely defers to the judgment of corrections off icials. He concludes that the Court has been generally unsupportive of prisoners in cases involving individual rights, conditions of confine ment, and the procedures that are constitutionally required before var ious administrative actions affecting inmates can be taken but support ive on issues dealing with the right of inmates to access the courts.