A Statutory Right to Treatment for Prisoners: Society's Right of Self-Defense

Authors

James A. Snowden, University of Nebraska College of LawFollow

Abstract

I. The Failure of Corrections to Correct

II. The Evolving Right to Treatment … A. The Mentally Ill … B. Sexual Psychopaths … C. Juveniles … D. Defective Delinquents

III. The Basis of the Right to Treatment

IV. Advantages of a Statutory Right

V. Enforcement of the Statutory Right to Treatment … A. State Administrative Procedure Acts … B. Alternative Means of Enforcement—Standing to Sue … C. Standing to Sue under Administrative Procedure Acts

VI. Conclusion

Recommended Citation

James A. Snowden, A Statutory Right to Treatment for Prisoners: Society's Right of Self-Defense, 50 Neb. L. Rev. 543 (1971)
Available at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/nlr/vol50/iss3/7