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VI Decree Modification Denied Under PLRA, DOC Held in Contempt
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1997, page 22
A federal district court in the Virgin Islands made specific factual findings under the terms of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) holding that prison and jail conditions on the island were unconstitutional and required federal court intervention to resolve via enforcement of an existing consent decree. While many observers, ...
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