A Jailhouse Lawyer's Manual (2020 Edition)
- 9-b-1 Time Limits
- 23-b-4 Medical Negligence
- 28 Rights of Prisoners with Disabilities[*] [details]
- 39-d-1 Application Procedures
- 39-f-3 Alternatives to Incarceration
- 18-c Due Process in Prison [details]
- 40-c-3 Prosecutorial Discrimination in Plea Bargaining
- 7-b-5 What to Do if Your Request Is Denied
- 12-b Ways to Claim Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
- 35-p-2 Commutations
- Appendix 6-b Sample Memorandum of Law[40]
- 21 State Habeas Corpus: Florida, New York, and Michigan [*] [details]
- 9-e-3 How to Perfect Your Appeal
- Appendix 37-c* Table of Selected New York State Laws That Bar or Restrict People with Criminal Records from Working in Certain Occupations
- 7-g Criminal History Records[103]
- 2-d-4 Citing Statutes and Administrative Regulations
- 18-d-8 The Ruling and the Requirement of a Written Record
- 8-c-3 Federal Discovery
- 16-b-1 Essential Requirements for Obtaining Relief Under Section 1983
- 38-c-1 Who Is Considered a Juvenile in New York State?
- 21-c-4 Your Right to Counsel for Your Petition
- 32-c Minimum Term of Incarceration Under an Indeterminate Sentence and Conditional Release Under a Determinate Sentence
- 6-b-5 Your Reply to the Defendant's Answer
- 14-c-1 What Is a Strike?
- Appendix IV Directory of Legal and Social Services for Prisoners
- 39-f The Second Chance Act of 2007 and Federal Bureau of Prisons Temporary Release Programs [details]
- 38 Rights of Juveniles in Prison[*] [details]
- 13-b The Fundamental Elements of a Federal Habeas Corpus Argument [details]
- 17-c-1 Facility Grievance Procedures
- 3 Your Right to Learn the Law and Go to Court* [details]
- 22-b What You Can Complain About Under Article 78 [details]
- 13-d-6 Where to File
- 8-b-2 Federal Discovery Procedures
- 6-b-3 Miscellaneous Papers
- 35-h-2 Requesting Presumptive Release
- 6-b-2 Supporting Papers
- 14-e-2 What Are Prison Conditions?
- 6-b The Legal Documents [details]
- 5-c-4 Tort Actions in State Courts
- Appendix 3-a Directory of Selected Law Libraries Offering Services to Prisoners and of Online Legal Resources[**]
- 26-b-1 Hiv and Aids
- 14-l-6 Settlements
- 36-d-1 Informational Tests
- 14-e-7 Dealing with Exhaustion in Your Lawsuit
- 9-b Limits on Your Right to Appeal [details]
- 20-d What to Expect after You Have Filed Your Article 440 Motion
- 8-b-4 Electronic Discovery ("ediscovery")
- 14-k Diversion of Damage Awards
- 37-d-2 New York State Law[121]
- 27-b-2 The Lemon Test
- 36-h Civil Commitment [details]
- 5-c-5 Tort Actions in Federal Courts
- 2-b-1 The Court System
- 20-b-2 What You Can Complain About in an Article 440 Motion
- 29-e-6 Involuntary Medication Is Necessary to Further Government Interests, and Less Intrusive Means Are Unlikely to Achieve the Same Result.[295]
- 31-b-3 New York's Classification Guidelines
- 32-f-6 Denial of Parole Release
- 13-c What You Cannot Raise in Your Habeas Petition [details]
- 13-a-4 Which Laws Apply to Federal Habeas Corpus?
- 35-i Clemency and Commutation in New York [details]
- 13-d-3 Procedural Default
- 8 Obtaining Information to Prepare Your Case: the Process of Discovery[*] [details]
- 21-b-4 Your Right to Counsel for Your Habeas Petition
- 28-c-1 Finding an Attorney
- Appendix 41-a Contacts for Further Assistance
- 2-d-3 Citing Cases
- 37-d-1 Federal Law
- 28-b-4 Your Right to "reasonable Modifications" of Prison Policy Under the Ada
- 9-d-1 Appealing Your Conviction
- 35-f-4 Jenna's Law and Post-release Supervision for All Determinate Sentences and Drug Offenses
- 14-f-1 What Does the Statute Do?
- 27-c The First Amendment Free Exercise Clause, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (rluipa), and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (rfra) [details]
- 39-b-2 Short-term Temporary Release Procedures
- Appendix 13-c Examples of Habeas Claims Based on the Constitution
- 18-c-5 Parole
- 37 Rights Upon Release[*] [details]
- Appendix 37-a Contact Information for Housing Assistance Agencies
- 22-d-8 Serving the Respondents and the Attorney General
- 37-c-2 Medical and Mental Health Assistance
- 22-e How to Bring an Article 78 Proceeding [details]
- 20-f How to Appeal if Your Article 440 Motion Is Denied
- 35-c-3 Conditional Release
- 21-c-6 Your Right to Appeal
- 14-e-1 What Is Exhaustion?
- 6 An Introduction to Legal Documents[*] [details]
- 13-a-5 Three Rules to Know before Filing
- 9-g Three Options for Dealing with Ineffective Assistance of Appellate Counsel [details]
- 35-f-5 Length of Your Conditional Release
- 24-d-2 Examples of Legal Claims Brought by Lgbt Prisoners
- 33-e-2 If Your Child Is in Foster Care
- Appendix 16-a Forms and Samples
- 14-l-4 Termination of Judgments
- 38-a-4 Differences Between the Adult Criminal System and Juvenile Delinquency System
- 35-f-6 Revocation of Conditional Release
- 7-b-2 What Agencies Are Covered and What Records Are Available
- 22-d-10 The "answer" by the Government and Your "reply"
- 23-c-2 Elective Procedures
- 26-b-4 Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus ("mrsa")
- 16-c-7 How to File Your Complaint
- 14-l Injunctions [details]
- 22-d-9 Proof of Service
- 16-e-4 What You Can Complain About
- 5-c Lawsuits to Challenge the Conditions of Your Imprisonment[14] [details]
- 25-d Why You Should Not Resist an Illegal Body Search
- 35-n Additional Ways the Bop Can Shorten a Federal Sentence [details]
- 16-c-1 Types of Relief a Court May Grant
- 13-d-4 Successive Petitions[313]
- 18-d-2 Written Notice Requirement
- 5-c-1 Administrative Grievances
- 37-d Employment [details]
- 17 The State's Duty to Protect You and Your Property: Tort Actions[*] [details]
- 40-c-1 Types of Plea Agreements
- 36-h-2 Statutes
- 29-b-1 What to Do if the Psychiatric Medical Care You Receive Is Inadequate
- 14-h Waiver of Reply
- 38-d-2 New York State Laws Regarding Conditions of Incarceration
- 36-c "recommended" Counseling and the Loss of Good Time Credits [details]
- 29-d Conditions of Confinement for Prisoners with Mental Illness [details]
- 24-d Assault on Lgbt or Effeminate Prisoners [details]
- 35-b New York State
- 1-b How to Use the Jlm to Learn About the Law
- 38-c Procedure in New York State[61] [details]
- 32-d Shock Incarceration Program
- 9-c-1 Getting a Lawyer
- 31-b-7 Legal Challenges to Classification Decisions
- 38-b-1 Procedure in the Federal System
- 32-h-3 Final Hearing
- 2-c-2 Methods of Legal Research
- 20-c-1 Preparing Your Motion Documents
- Appendix 2-a Citation Examples of Common Authorities
- 7-d Medical/health Records
- 36-d-2 Evidentiary Testing Laws
- 35-p Federal Executive Clemency [details]
- 35-f-2 Conditional Release from a Determinate or Indeterminate Sentence
- 35-f-3 The Release Agreement
- 19-b-2 State and Federal Protections of the Right to General (non-legal) Correspondence
- 30-i-1 Lawrence V. Texas and Due Process Claims
- 22-f-2 Filing a Notice of Appeal ("taking the Appeal")
- 29-e-3 Important Government Interests Are at Stake.[281]
- 24-c-2 Eighth Amendment Claims for Sexual Assault
- 16-c-2 Whom to Name as Defendants
- 30-c-2 Access to Personal Items Associated with Gender Identity
- Appendix 9-a The Court to Which You Should Appeal
- 13-b-3 The Harmless Error Rule
- 16-d-d-1-2 Using State Law And/or State Courts
- 36-g-2 Residency Restrictions
- 35-i-3 How to Request a Pardon or Commutation
- 34-e-2 The Federal Speedy Trial Act[136]
- 34-d-2 New York's Bail Statute
- 35-o-9 How Can You Change the Terms of Your Supervised Release?
- 18-c-3 Good-time Credits
- 29-f Planning for Your Release
- 14-e-3 What Are "available" Remedies?
- 29-b-2 What to Do if Treatment Is Denied or Delayed
- 31-c-2 Fourteenth Amendment Claims
- 39 Temporary Release Programs[*] [details]
- 40-d-1 Constitutional Requirements for Accepting a Guilty Plea
- 39-e-2 Revocation of Temporary Release
- 34-e-3 New York's Speedy Trial Statute
- 18-f Administrative Segregation Proceedings
- 41-c-2 Abortion
- 16-e-5 What You Should File
- 33-d-2 Defending Yourself Against Termination of Parental Rights
- 15-e-2 Directive 4041: the Inmate Grievance Program Modification Plan
- 22-f-3 Putting Together Your Record
- 16-c-8 What to Expect after Your Legal Papers Have Been Filed in Court
- 36-g-3 New York
- 22-a-2 Who Hears Article 78 Proceedings?
- 14-d Screening and Dismissal of Prisoner Cases
- 16-c-5 When to File
- 24-e-3 Tort Actions
- 29-b Your Right to Receive Treatment [details]
- 39-c Eligibility Requirements for Temporary Release Programs
- 30-i Changes in the Law [details]
- 35-n-2 Early Release Under the Residential Drug Abuse Program
- 41-f-2 Writing Your Petition
- 3-g The State's Duty in the Internet Age
- 30 Special Information for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Prisoners[*] [details]
- 22-f-5 "perfecting the Appeal": Submitting All Necessary Documents
- 36-f-4 The Importance of Following Parole Rules
- 11 Using Post- Conviction Dna Testing to Attack Your Conviction or Sentence[*] [details]
- 41-d-3 Sexual Assault and Rape
- 30-e-2 Sexual Abuse
- 13-g Conclusion
- 18-e-3 Appeal Procedures
- 13-a Introduction [details]
- 32-g-2 Supervision of Parole
- 22-c-1 You May Only Challenge Administrative Decisions
- 22-a-1 What Is an Article 78 Proceeding?
- 8-b-3 New York Discovery Procedure
- 36-f-3 Incarceration Beyond Your Conditional Release Date
- Appendix 10-b Sample Application for Ny State Re-sentencing[211]
- 31-b-5 Florida's Classification Guidelines
- 13-d-8 How to File
- 2-c-1 Sources for Legal Research
- 15-c-3 How to Write an Effective Grievance
- 5-b-2 Post-conviction Remedies
- 31-c-5 Equal Protection and Free Exercise of Religion Claims
- 4-c Lawyers for Civil Cases
- 24-e-2 42 U.s.c. Section 1983