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... > social science subjects > criminology and criminal justice > criminology > social history of crime > state and federal court cases > Gates v. Collier

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Gates v. Collier  

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  • This case, heard in 1972, is one of the first prisoners’ rights cases in American corrections. The case effectively created minimum standards of confinement for inmates in the United States. [Source: The Social History of Crime and Punishment in America: An Encylopedia; Gates v. Collier]

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