Jail Pro 2023 - 2024 Lesson Summaries
Legal
Release Date: 12/1/2024
- Can refusing to admit a person into a jail’s volunteer ministry program violate that person’s First Amendment rights?
- Do officers violate an inmate’s rights by denying the inmate access to prescribed withdrawal medication?
- When can officers be liable for deliberate indifference to an inmate’s serious medical needs when they ignore an inmate’s request for help after a spider bite injury?
Legal
Release Date: 11/1/2024
- When does disclosing personal inmate information constitute a constitutional violation?
- Does an officer observing an inmate’s naked body when she is giving birth constitute a constitutional violation?
- Are officers always required to provide inmates with their prescribed, non-life-sustaining medications?
Legal
Release Date: 10/1/2024
- When do officers use excessive force and unlawfully fail to accommodate an inmate’s disability while forcibly moving the inmate?
- Can a strip search violate a jail visitor’s rights?
- When does an officer unreasonably disregard the risk that an inmate will die by suicide?
Legal
Release Date: 9/1/2024
- When can jail officials be held liable for failing to protect an inmate’s health and safety?
- When are jail supervisors liable for an inmate’s assault on another inmate?
- What are permissible restrictions on unsolicited commercial mail to inmates?
Legal
Release Date: 8/1/2024
This lesson provides legal training for correctional officers through an analysis of three Target Cases answering the following questions:
When does an officer’s use of force against an inmate violate the inmate’s constitutional rights?
When do officers violate an inmate’s constitutional rights by placing the inmate in a restraint chair?
Do officers violate an inmate’s constitutional rights by forcing the inmate to expose his or her naked body?
Legal
Release Date: 7/1/2024
This lesson provides legal training for correctional officers through an analysis of three Target Cases answering the following questions:
When are jail officials liable for subjecting inmates to unlawful conditions of confinement?
When is a county liable for reported sexual assaults perpetrated by an individual officer?
When does an officer’s lack of response to an inmate’s alcohol withdrawal constitute deliberate indifference?
Legal
Release Date: 6/1/2024
This lesson provides legal training for jailers and correctional officers through an analysis of three Target Cases answering the following questions:
When does jail policy substantially burden an inmate’s religious rights?
Can an inmate sue jail officials under the Americans with Disabilities Act for failing to accommodate the inmate’s gender dysphoria by housing the inmate with inmates of the opposite gender?
Why must jails have accessible grievance procedures for inmates to follow?
Legal
Release Date: 4/1/2024
This lesson provides legal training for jailers and correctional officers through an analysis of three Target Cases answering the following questions:
Can exposure to secondhand smoke violate an inmate’s constitutional rights?
When are jailers deliberately indifferent to an inmate’s mental health?
When is disciplinary action against an inmate considered unconstitutional punishment?
Legal
Release Date: 3/1/2024
This lesson provides legal training for jailers and correctional officers through an analysis of three Target Cases answering the following questions:
Do inmates have a privacy right to not be viewed within their cells? And, what evidence shows jailers unlawfully retaliated against an inmate for filing grievances within the jail?
What must jail officials do to accommodate an inmate’s right to vote?
What evidence is sufficient to establish that a jailer was deliberately indifferent to an inmate’s suicide risk?
Legal
Release Date: 2/1/2024
This lesson provides legal training for jailers and correctional officers through an analysis of three Target Cases answering the following questions:
When do jailers violate an inmate’s constitutional rights by failing to give the inmate prescribed medication?
When do jail mail regulations violate inmates’ constitutional rights?
What authority authorizes jailers to detain an inmate?
Legal
Release Date: 1/1/2024
This lesson provides legal training for jailers and correctional officers through an analysis of three Target Cases answering the following questions:
When can jail supervisors be liable if a jailer has sexual intercourse with an inmate?
When does a jailer use excessive force against an inmate?
What facts show that jailers are deliberately indifferent to an inmate’s medical needs?
Legal
Release Date: 12/1/2023
This lesson provides legal training for correctional officers through an analysis of three Target Cases answering the following questions:
When are inmate strip searches permissible?
When are jailers deliberately indifferent to an inmate’s suicide risk?
When does a jail’s legal mail retention policy violate an inmate’s First Amendment right to free speech?
Legal
Release Date: 11/1/2023
This lesson provides legal training for jailers and correctional officers through an analysis of three Target Cases answering the following questions:
When do an inmate’s conditions of confinement violate the inmate’s constitutional rights?
When can confiscating an inmate’s personal property substantially burden the inmate’s First Amendment right to free exercise of religion?
When does a jailer’s lack of response to an inmate’s medical needs constitute deliberate indifference? And, when has an inmate’s rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act have been violated?
Legal
Release Date: 10/1/2023
This lesson provides legal training for jailers and correctional officers through an analysis of three Target Cases answering the following questions:
When does interception of an inmate’s email violate the inmate’s constitutional rights?
What evidence will show that jail officials failed to adequately supervise and train jailers?
What should officers do when responding to an inmate’s medical emergency, such as an epileptic seizure?
Legal
Release Date: 9/1/2023
This lesson provides legal training for jailers and correctional officers through an analysis of three Target Cases answering the following questions:
When can jailers be liable for retaliating against an inmate for exercising his or her First Amendment rights?
What evidence will sustain a civil claim that jailers were deliberately indifferent to an inmate’s safety and medical needs?
When can handcuffing an inmate violate the inmate’s constitutional right to be free from an excessive use of force?
Legal
Release Date: 8/1/2023
This is an online legal studies course. The lesson addresses relevant and recent court decisions providing guidance to jail officials regarding:
Sexual Harassment Basics
Sexual Harassment Claims
Retaliation
Employer Liability
The Sexual Harassment Case
What You Can Do
Legal
Release Date: 7/1/2023
This lesson provides legal training for jailers and correctional officers through an analysis of three Target Cases answering the following questions:
When do jail officials have a duty to place an inmate in protective custody?
What circumstances constitute excessive use of force?
When do inmates have a protected property interest in items in their cells?
Legal
Release Date: 6/1/2023
This lesson provides legal training for jailers and correctional officers through an analysis of three Target Cases answering the following questions:
When can a jail’s policies, customs, and practices be deliberately indifferent to the risk that an inmate will attempt suicide?
When can a jail’s grievance procedures be too complicated?
When can jailers be liable for mistakenly detaining an inmate?
Legal
Release Date: 5/1/2023
This lesson provides legal training for jailers and correctional officers through an analysis of three Target Cases answering the following questions:
How can jailers balance the need to intervene in a situation in which an inmate posed an immediate danger to himself with the need to wait for sufficient backup support so that the intervention could be made safely?
What are some reasonable steps jailers can take during an inmate hunger strike?
When can jail meals violate an inmate’s constitutional rights?
Legal
Release Date: 4/1/2023
This lesson provides legal training for jailers and correctional officers through an analysis of three Target Cases answering the following questions:
When does a jailer have a duty to intervene to prevent another jailer from using excessive force?
What is an inmate’s reasonable expectation of privacy while detained?
Can cross-sex strip searches violate an inmate’s rights?
Technical Skills
Release Date: 3/1/2023
This is an online technical skills course. The lesson provides guidance to jail officials regarding:
1. Substance Use
Overview
Alcohol
Tobacco
Marijuana
Stimulants
Hallucinogens
MDMA
Opioids
2. Responding to Substance Users.
Legal
Release Date: 2/1/2023
This lesson provides legal training for jailers and correctional officers through an analysis of three Target Cases answering the following questions:
When can a pre-trial detainee’s confinement constitute unconstitutional punishment?
When may jailers rely on a medical professional’s judgment as to appropriate medical care for an inmate?
Can jailers continue to detain an individual—to check the individual’s immigration status—after he or she is supposed to be released?
Legal
Release Date: 1/1/2023
This lesson provides legal training for jailers and correctional officers through an analysis of three Target Cases answering the following questions:
Can a jail continue to detain a driving while intoxicated arrestee after he or she posts bond?
When can a jail’s destroy-or-sell policy for an arrestee’s property violate the arrestee’s constitutional rights?
When do differences in jail policy between men and women violate the Equal Protection Clause?
