Abstract
When Justice Stevens joined the Supreme Court in late 1975, he immediately established himself as the foremost advocate of prisoners’ rights with two important dissenting opinions in 1976 (Meachum v. Fano; Estelle v. Gamble). Stevens brought to the Supreme Court a broad conception of convicted offenders’ retained liberty interests. Throughout his 35-year Supreme Court career, Stevens articulated a rights-protective vision for convicted offenders’ legal protections that placed him at the most liberal end of the Court for such issues. Justice Stevens’s opinions illustrate the importance of individual justices’ values and judicial philosophies in shaping the law.
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Smith, C.E. (2016). A Protective Constitutional Vision: Justice Stevens and the Principles of Liberty. In: The Supreme Court and the Development of Law. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56763-5_4
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