This lesson provides legal training for jailers and correctional officers through an analysis of three Target Cases answering the following questions: 

• When can the use of spit masks result in liability to jail officials and to their government employers?

• Does an inmate’s constitutional right to wear his hair at any length shield the inmate from the consequences for violating the jail's hair length policy?

• Can a jailer/deputy-sheriff be held liable in a civil suit by members of the public who were traumatized by an inmate who, due to the jailer’s negligence, gains possession of the jailer’s gun?