The four foundations of correctional law are constitutions, statues, case law, and regulations. The constitution are the fundamental law in a state or federal document that discusses basic rights for individuals. The Bill of rights provide protection against government action that violates basic rights and liberties, however inmates have a restriction to these rights three inparticular are institutional order, institutional security, rehabilitation of inmates. Statues are laws created by the people’s elected representatives in legislatures. State legislators can grant specific rights to inmates beyond those conferred by the state or U.S. constitutions. Case law are legal rules produced by judges’ decisions, these cases follow a precedent of
