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PLRA Doesn't Apply to Civil Commitments

Loaded on Feb. 15, 2000 published in Prison Legal News February, 2000, page 10
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Totality of Conditions, Consent Decrees (PLRA), Civil Commitment. Location: Massachusetts.
A federal district court in Massachusetts held that the PLRA does not apply to sexually dangerous people who are civilly committed, even when the facility they are housed in is in fact a prison administered by the state prison system. In 1975 a consent decree was entered regarding conditions at …

 

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