Guy v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “[T]he problems that arise in the day-today operation of a corrections facility are not susceptible of easy solutions. Prison administrators should be accorded wide-ranging deference in the adoption and execution of policies and practices that in their judgment are needed to preserve internal order and discipline and to maintain institutional security. (citations omitted). “Such considerations are peculiarly within the province and professional expertise of corrections officials, and, in the absence of substantial evidence in the record to indicate that the officials have exaggerated their response to these considerations, courts should ordinarily defer to their expert judgment in such matters.” Pell v. Procunier, 417 U.S. [817] at 827 [ 94 S.Ct. 2800 at 2806 , 41 L.Ed.2d 495 (1974) ].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jones v. State