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

• When can jailers be liable for retaliating against an inmate for exercising his or her First Amendment rights?

• What evidence will sustain a civil claim that jailers were deliberately indifferent to an inmate’s safety and medical needs?

• When can handcuffing an inmate violate the inmate’s constitutional right to be free from an excessive use of force?