Legal Opinion
Earl Wittmer, Earl Craig Cox, and James Jeffers v. Howard A. Peters, III
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 2, 1996No. 95-3729, 95-4034PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
A number of states, including Illinois, have been experimenting in recent years with “boot camps” (or “shock incarceration,” as it is sometimes called) for young criminals, in lieu of conventional prisons. See 730 ILCS 5/5-8-1.1 (“impact incarceration”); Correctional Boot Cam/ps: A Tough Intermediate Sanction (Doris L. MacKenzie & Eugene E. Hebert eds., U.S. Dept, of Justice, Feb. 1996); Steven P. Karr & Robert J. Jones, “The Development and Implementation of Illinois’ Impact Incarceration Program,” in id at 69. The idea is to give the inmates an experience similar to that…
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3Cited by72 opinions
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