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8 Aug 2016, 3:06 pm by Elizabeth B. Carpenter
In 1996, in response to the overwhelming number of suits filed alleging inhumane prison conditions or staff misconduct, the Clinton Administration passed the Prison Litigation Reform Act. [read post]
8 Aug 2016, 3:06 pm by Elizabeth B. Carpenter
In 1996, in response to the overwhelming number of suits filed alleging inhumane prison conditions or staff misconduct, the Clinton Administration passed the Prison Litigation Reform Act. [read post]
8 Aug 2016, 3:06 pm by Elizabeth B. Carpenter
In 1996, in response to the overwhelming number of suits filed alleging inhumane prison conditions or staff misconduct, the Clinton Administration passed the Prison Litigation Reform Act. [read post]
12 Oct 2022, 8:28 am by CrimProf BlogEditor
Hannah Mirzoeff has posted The Prison Litigation Reform Act Exhaustion Requirement: How a Legislative Decision from 1996 Is Controlling COVID-19 Conditions inside Correctional Facilities, and What Can Be Done to Fix It (Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 43, No. 5, 2022)... [read post]
21 Mar 2011, 12:49 am
The Good The Prisoner Litigation Reform Act was enacted in the mid 1990's in response to the overwhelming amount of inmates who were filing civil rights complaints across the country. [read post]
7 Jan 2013, 11:11 am by Michael M. O'Hear
I have some reflections on the great 1996 prisoner litigation reforms in an essay newly uploaded to SSRN. [read post]
3 Nov 2015, 4:58 pm by Amy Howe
But in 1996, in an effort to curb frequent and frivolous lawsuits by inmates in federal courts, Congress passed the Prison Litigation Reform Act. [read post]
22 Apr 2008, 1:10 pm
April 24th is the 12th anniversary of the Prison Litigation Reform Act, an important day far too few of us will even be aware of. [read post]
20 Feb 2015, 10:06 am by Steve Vladeck
Tollefson, it will confront yet another in a long line of complicated procedural questions created by the “three strikes” provision of the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996 (PLRA).That provision generally precludes courts from conferring in forma pauperis status upon prisoner-plaintiffs “if the prisoner has, on 3 or more prior occasions, while incarcerated or detained in any facility, brought an action or appeal in a… [read post]
14 Sep 2018, 10:30 am
In 1996, Congress passed, and President Clinton, signed the Prison Litigation Reform Act, which establishes an array of burdens and hurdles that apply to prisoners — and only to prisoners — who seek to enforce their rights in federal court. [read post]
30 Mar 2016, 4:25 pm by Steve Vladeck
Blake, a case ostensibly presenting the question of whether there is a “special circumstances” exception to the exhaustion requirement of the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996 (PLRA), “the real question for the Court . . . may not be the merits of the question presented, but rather the appropriate means to resolve the actual dispute between the parties. [read post]
23 Feb 2015, 1:57 pm by Steve Vladeck
Tollefson, it was quite clear that the Justices were unpersuaded that the so-called “three strikes” provision of the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996 (PLRA) – which bars prisoners from filing fourth or successive civil suits absent exigent circumstances unless they can afford the hefty federal filing fee – is clear about whether a prior dismissal of a prisoner’s suit counts as a strike even while that… [read post]
29 Jun 2010, 6:05 am by Second Circuit Civil Rights Blog
The Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996 made it more difficult for inmates to bring federal lawsuits if their prior actions were deemed meritless. [read post]
22 Mar 2016, 7:42 am by Steve Vladeck
But hiding behind a technical dispute over what it means for administrative remedies to be “available” under the exhaustion requirement of Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996 (PLRA) is a far more interesting dispute between the parties over what the case is actually about – with the added baggage of a state taking a different position in its briefs about its own laws than what case law appears to reveal those laws to provide. [read post]
6 May 2014, 9:46 pm by Jennifer Bard
Much of that activity was halted by a very powerful federal law, the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996 that set up a 3 strikes system that deprived a prisoner's right to petition the court without paying a filing fee after a judicial determination that he or she had filed 3 frivolous law suits. [read post]
30 Nov 2010, 7:09 am by Nabiha Syed
Plata, presenting the question whether a federal court’s order requiring California to release prisoners to reduce prison overcrowding was consistent with the 1996 Prison Litigation Reform Act. [read post]
4 Apr 2019, 2:00 pm
  But the federal courts' oversight role has been sharply limited by the 1996 Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA). [read post]
20 Feb 2014, 6:27 am
Today, I’ll talk about whether the federal and state Prison Litigation Reform Acts alter this conclusion in any way. [read post]