Wilks v. District of Columbia

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding that although no degrees were awarded, the nature of the program was “essentially a school”
• stating that “[t]he ordinary meaning of the term ‘educational institution’ is ‘school.’”
• typically “inmate labor belongs to the penal institution and inmates do not lose their primary status as inmates just because they perform work”
• convicted “inmate labor belongs to the penal institution and inmates do not lose their primary status as inmates just because they perform work”
• prison program’s teachers required to be certified by the public school system and were “full-time professional educators”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).