Download or read book The Legal Rights of the Convicted written by Barbara Belbot and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This criminal justice textbook concentrates on that area of corrections law that specifically concerns the legal rights of convicted offenders, whether they are incarcerated in prisons or jails or serving time in a community corrections program on probation or parole. It does not address other areas of law that also affect correctional officials such as employment or business law. Among the topics are sentencing, First Amendment rights of access to the courts and free expression, the use of force, the Eighth Amendment, jails and prisoner litigation and reform, and probation and parole. -- Publisher's description.