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PLRA and AEDPA Have Different Effects on Prisoner Petitions

Loaded on Aug. 15, 2002 published in Prison Legal News August, 2002, page 29
Filed under: Reviews, Statistics/Trends, Court Access. Location: United States of America.
In a December 2001 special report, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, a division of the U.S. Department of Justice, determined that the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) and the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) have had significant, but differing, effects on the filing rates of prisoner petitions. The ...

 

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