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NY Jail Consent Decrees Vacated under PLRA
Loaded on Feb. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
January, 1997, page 8
A federal district court in New York upheld the constitutionality of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) and terminated a series of consent decrees in seven cases that governed conditions at Rikers Island and several other New York City jails. Readers should note that the judge in this case, Harold ...
Filed under:
Conditions of Confinement,
Totality of Conditions,
Consent Decrees (PLRA).
Location:
New York.
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