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Trends in Prisoner Litigation, as the PLRA Enters Adulthood

Loaded on Sept. 28, 2015 by Margo Schlanger published in Prison Legal News October, 2015, page 1
Filed under: Statistics/Trends, PLRA. Location: United States of America.

Trends in Prisoner Litigation, as the PLRA Enters Adulthood

by Margo Schlanger*

The Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA),1 enacted in 1996 as part of the Newt Gingrich “Contract with America,”2 is now as old as some prisoners. In the year after the statute’s passage, some commenters labeled it ...

 

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