Law · Boston College
The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. In 1980, approximately 500,000 people were behind bars in this country. In 2019, this figure topped 2.1 million (nearly two-thirds of whom are people of color), incarcerated in jails, state prisons, and federal prisons. Incarceration law will examine the constitutional law, and some statutory law, relevant to incarceration and prisoners rights. Topics will include free speech and religious rights in prison, the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishments, the prison disciplinary process, solitary and supermax confin
