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The CM Law Library Blog seeks to inform the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law community about key legal education, research, practice, and law library news, with a particular focus on Cuyahoga County and Ohio as well as faculty research interests.

Lap 9 of Research 10K(nowledge) Race

Laura E. Ray, Educational Programming Librarian, laura.ray@law.csuohio.edu | November 09, 2009 - 12:53

The Research 10K(nowledge) Race is almost over - just two more laps!

The Anthony Sowell case has many people wondering about how prisoners are classified, and the status of psychological evaluations of prisoners, in Ohio. You can start to explore these issues by taking this week’s quiz.

1. What Ohio Administrative Code section details the procedure for classifying inmates, and what specific medical factors are included in this procedure? What OAC section discusses inmate classification committees, and are medical personnel required on such committees?

2. Using the BNA Criminal Law Reporter (accessible from the Law Library Electronic Resources page), find a 2005 US Supreme Court case concerning prisoner classification and supermax prisons in Ohio. [Hint - after finding the case, to get the complete citation to it, you will need to do a name search.] How did the Court rule on the Ohio Corrections Department’s classification procedure?
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