You will utilize the RACE Writing Method to respond to this assignment, Restate the question, Answer, Cite Evidence, and Explain.

1. The due process clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments normally applies to defendants. Discuss the relevance of due process to sentenced prisoners. In your opinion, should convicted and sentenced offenders enjoy due process rights?

2. Discuss the issues that revolve around confidential informants in disciplinary hearings. What is the main problem that threatens due process rights in using prison informants? In your discussion make references to relevant cases.

3. Discuss the double jeopardy issue that was challenged in the case of United States v. Brown. In your opinion, was the federal court right to add additional punishment to the ones already imposed on Brown?

4. Discuss the importance of having access to law libraries in prisons. How does this practice help serve due process?