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

• What obligation do jailers have to correctly determine an inmate’s gender when deciding where to house the inmate?

• How do jail inmate grievance processes operate? 

• Why is it important that jailers understand how their jail’s grievance process operates?

• What happens when a jail does not administer its own grievance process properly?

• Do inmates have a constitutional right to marry?

• What limitations can a jail constitutionally place on inmate requests to marry?