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?