What is the hands off doctrine

What is the hands off doctrine, law homework help
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Business Finance

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RESPOND TO 4 CLASSMATES DISCUSSION POSTS:

DISCUSSION POST #1:

1. What is the hands off doctrine? What is the stance of the courts today on this. Find an article to support your findings/ research and post it.

The hands off doctrine is a historical policy of the American courts not to intervene in prison management. Courts tended to follow the doctrine until the late 1960's. It was believed inmates had no rights because they forfeited them upon incarceration. The hands off doctrine is no longer acknowledge today and everyone's rights are protected whether incarcerated or not.

2. On page 362-3 of your text, there are two pages of court cases. Each of you take a different case(first come, first served) and post the circumstances of the case you have chosen. In other words, post the facts of the case and what led to an appeal. You will have to look up the case to obtain the case from the TU Library. DO NOT use the info from the text but from your research. Post your case in the title of your Db response so others will know what has been posted.

Johnson v. California

California Department of Corrections had aunwrittensegregationpolicy.Racial profiling by presuming it would keep down on violence between racial gangs.Presenting racial classifications and placing prisoners in double cells according to race. Prisoners where assigned cells based on their race and segregated from other races for up to 60 days while their future placement be determined. Johnson a AfricanAmerican male incarcerated since 1987 filed a suit stating it violated his Fourteenth Amendment right of equal protection. The Fourteenth Amendment states "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty,