Uniform Law Commissioners' Model Sentencing and Corrections ActU.S. Department of Justice, Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, 1979 - Correctional law - 447 pages |
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Page 442 - Every law that makes an action done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal; and punishes such action. 2d. Every law that aggravates a crime, or makes it greater than it was, when committed.
Page 274 - But to say that a public jail is the equivalent of a man's 'house' or that it is a place where he can claim constitutional immunity from search or seizure of his person, his papers, or his effects, is at best a novel argument.
Page 442 - Every law that alters the legal rules of evidence and receives less or different testimony than the law required at the time of the commission of the offense, in order to convict the offender.
Page 240 - the fundamental constitutional right of access to the courts requires prison authorities to assist inmates in the preparation and filing of meaningful legal papers by providing prisoners with adequate law libraries or adequate assistance from persons trained in the law.
Page 158 - ... diagnostic opinion which might seriously disrupt a program of rehabilitation, sources of information obtained upon a promise of confidentiality, or any other information which, if disclosed, might result in harm, physical or otherwise, to the defendant or other persons...
Page 216 - A person sentenced to imprisonment in a state prison may, during any such period of confinement, be deprived of such rights, and only such rights, as is necessary in order to provide for the reasonable security of the institution in which he is confined and for the reasonable protection of the public.
Page 216 - [a] prisoner retains all the rights of an ordinary citizen except those expressly, or by necessary implication, taken from him by law.
Page 290 - Equally as obviously, the inmate's "status as a prisoner" and the operational realities of a prison dictate restrictions on the associational rights among inmates. Because the realities of running a penal institution are complex...
Page 110 - State penal code revisions should include a provision that the maximum sentence for any offender not specifically found to represent a substantial danger to others should not exceed 5 years for felonies other than murder.
Page 268 - See Emerson, Toward a General Theory of the First Amendment, 72 Yale LJ 877, 938 (1963).