521 F. Supp. 430 - Lowery v. Cuyler’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 2 state decisions

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The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Prison officials must be free to take appropriate action to ensure the safety of inmates and corrections personnel and to prevent escape or unauthorized entry. Accordingly, we have held that even when an institutional restriction infringes a specific constitutional guarantee, such as the First Amendment, the practice must be evaluated in the light of the central objective of prison administration, safeguarding institutional security. [Citations.] *** [T]he problems that arise in the day-to-day operation of a corrections facility are not susceptible of easy solutions. Prison administrators therefore 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.] ‘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.’ ” (Bell, 441 U.S. at 547-48 , 60 L. Ed. 2d at 473-74 , 99 S. Ct. at 1878-79 , quoting Pell v. Procunier (1974), 417 U.S. 817, 827 , 41 L. Ed. 2d 495, 504 , 94 S. Ct. 2800, 2806 .)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 222 Ill. App. 3d 322 - Webb v. Lane