This lesson provides legal training for correctional officers through an analysis of three Target Cases answering the following questions:

• Do jail officials violate a sentenced inmate’s rights by failing to transfer the inmate to prison the same day the inmate is booked at the jail?
• When is disciplinary action against an inmate considered unconstitutional punishment?
• When does jail food violate an inmate’s religious dietary restrictions? 

This lesson provides legal training for correctional officers through an analysis of three Target Cases answering the following questions:

• What facts show that an inmate has been subjected to unconstitutional conditions of confinement?
• When does an officer use excessive force against an inmate? And, when can an officer be liable for failing to intervene when another officer uses excessive force?
• When is an officer deliberately indifferent to the risk that an inmate will die by suicide? 

This lesson provides legal training for correctional officers through an analysis of three Target Cases answering the following questions:

• When are jail staff deliberately indifferent to an inmate’s injury? And when are jail protocols and training constitutionally insufficient?
• Do private citizens have a constitutional right to interview inmates?
• What steps must inmates take to exhaust a jail’s administrative grievance procedure?

This lesson provides legal training for correctional officers through an analysis of three Target Cases answering the following questions:

• Can discontinuing a transgender inmate’s hormone replacement therapy violate the inmate’s constitutional rights when a prison physician has rendered an opinion that the inmate does not have gender dysphoria?
• Can officers violate an inmate’s constitutional rights when the inmate is harmed because of the inmate’s role as an informant?
• Can an officer be deliberately indifferent to an inmate’s health when the officer does not know the inmate has ingested drugs?