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

• Under what circumstances can jailers be held liable for failing to protect a transgender inmate from suffering injuries inflicted by another inmate, and then for failing to provide the injured inmate with medical care?

• What should jail officials know about extraditions so that they do not violate an inmate’s constitutional rights and subject themselves to civil liability?

• When can a county be liable for failing to train its jailers?