By the late 1960s, however, prison conditions in many states were clearly intolerable. Courts began to review the claims of prisoners and to intervene regularly on their behalf. Finding that even prisoners are entitled to minimum rights, federal courts in particular exhibited renewed interest in the right of access to the courts, freedom of expression and religion, the constitutional PROHIBITION against CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT, and the right to DUE PROCESS OF LAW.
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