Exam 8: Additional Constitutional Issues

Administrative classification committees are in charge of initial goals and adjustment to incarceration.

The Federal Extradition Act provides the procedures by which Article IV of the Constitution must be carried out.

A detainer is a legal order that requires a state to hold a currently imprisoned individual when he has finished serving his sentence so that he may be tried by a different state for a different crime.

Under the Interstate Agreement on Detainers, how many days does a state have to try a prisoner, who is transferred for the purposes of a trail?

Farmer v. Brennan can be applied to confinement conditions to reveal if Eighth Amendment violations have occurred.

In Vitek v. Jones, the Supreme Court addresses transfers from prison to mental hospitals.

In __________, the Supreme Court required California to reduce their prison population due to severe overcrowding and the deprivations that occur as a result.

In __________, the Supreme Court established that a state prisoner has no justifiable expectation that they will not be transferred to another prison in a different state.