|
|
Article: Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State: How the Courts Reformed America's Prisons.(Review)
- Article from:
- Corrections Today
- Article date:
- July 1, 1999
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1999 American Correctional Association, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
by Malcolm M. Feeley and Edward L. Rubin, Cambridge University Press, (212) 924-3900, 1998, 490 pp.
Between 1965 and 1990, the federal judiciary played a monumental role in reshaping the landscape of corrections across the United States. In Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State: How the Courts Reformed America's Prisons, Malcolm M. Feeley and Edward L. Rubin, professors at the University of California at Berkeley's School of Law, trace the evolution and impact of judicial intervention in the operation of American correctional facilities.
Although inmates began brining suits in federal courts challenging their conditions of confinement in the 1930s, ...