Nebraska College of Law: Protecting the Rights of Incarcerated People

Curt Bright Author

10/10/2023 Added

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Professor of Law Danielle Jefferis talks about her research into lawsuits brought to court by incarcertated people, and how working at UNL helps her work researching how federal courts treat and oversee the country's prision system. Learn more about Jefferis and her research here: https://law.unl.edu/danielle-c-jefferis/

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[00:00:05.130]Prisons are one of the most closed systems that we have,
[00:00:08.520]one of the most opaque systems.
[00:00:10.020]It's often difficult to know what's going on
[00:00:12.210]inside of them, and lawsuits are one primary way
[00:00:15.450]that incarcerated people shed light
[00:00:17.550]for us in the public on what's happening inside.
[00:00:20.430]So my research focuses on primarily the ways
[00:00:23.550]in which federal courts oversee
[00:00:25.530]and regulate the prison system throughout the country
[00:00:28.140]and particularly the way that they enforce
[00:00:30.138]or fail to enforce the constitutional protections
[00:00:33.540]that incarcerated people have.
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[00:00:44.790]So I look at primarily cases that incarcerated people bring
[00:00:48.690]in the federal court system to enforce their rights
[00:00:52.110]and then track and analyze the ways
[00:00:54.630]in which the courts are interpreting those rights
[00:00:57.210]applying those rights, and enforcing those rights
[00:00:59.340]as against prison systems and prison employees.
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[00:01:14.220]I hope that my research will help to alleviate some
[00:01:18.270]of the harms that prisons inflict
[00:01:20.040]on people who are incarcerated inside
[00:01:21.720]of them and the communities that those people come from.
[00:01:24.690]I hope that my research will help to expand
[00:01:27.750]and ensure greater constitutional protections
[00:01:30.360]for the people who are inside and shed some light
[00:01:32.640]on the conditions in prisons and jails across the country.
[00:01:36.570]Being at Nebraska Law is beneficial
[00:01:38.340]for my research because of the law school's commitment
[00:01:40.680]to the public interest and doing good and advancing justice.
[00:01:44.460]There's a well-known quote that we can judge a society
[00:01:46.860]by the way it treats its prisoners.
[00:01:48.540]This is a local issue, it's a national issue
[00:01:51.030]and it's a global issue, and it matters.

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