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19 Feb 2020, 10:00 am
In 1996, Congress passed the Prison Litigation Reform Act, which tightened up prisoners’ access to federal civil litigation in many ways. [read post]
27 Feb 2020, 8:09 am
Ortiz-Marquez, this term’s case about the hastily drafted and much-litigated 1996 Prison Litigation Reform Act. [read post]
8 Jun 2020, 12:12 pm
Ortiz-Marquez, this term’s case about the hastily drafted and much-litigated 1996 Prison Litigation Reform Act. [read post]
20 Oct 2011, 11:37 am
”Demand for access to healthcare among the prison population is especially high, she explained, given that many inmates suffer from chronic diseases prevalent among the poor while others are afflicted with untreated psychological conditions.The need for prison healthcare reform has become still more pressing, Winter noted, since the extension of prison sentences by the 1996 Prison Litigation Reform Act. [read post]
21 Jan 2010, 9:45 am
Whatever the politics of swing v. base voters going into, rather than coming out of, a mid-term congressional election (which may be important) it is also worth remembering that what Clinton did in that period was to help enact some of the worst pieces of crime legislation in the history of democratic societies including a host of new federal death penalties, the Anti-terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, the Prison Litigation Reform… [read post]
9 Jun 2020, 10:07 am
But I wonder if it’s fair to say that the 104th Congress’s lawmaking in 1995 and 1996 represented the last high water mark of legislation, in an era today bogged down with divided government, heightened partisanship in each party and separating them from one another, inaction from the out-of-power party, increased use of the filibuster, and so on.To name a few statutes enacted in this era, with Wikipedia links: the Lobbying Disclosure Act, the Private Securities… [read post]
3 Mar 2011, 2:10 pm
When Congress passed the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, the primary feature was supposed to be a reform that promised states a rapid and efficient trip through federal review if only they provided adequate counsel for state collateral review, which most states did at the time anyway. [read post]
19 Jul 2019, 1:48 pm
Abuse in prison Despite the years of reporting him, hospital records from her injuries caused by him, and the fact she was acting in self-defense, Sarah was still sentenced to 15 years in prison and convicted as a felon. [read post]
23 May 2011, 12:54 pm
The decision upheld what clearly is the most sweeping inmate release order in the 15-year history of the Prison Litigation Reform Act, a federal law that Congress passed to set new standards to govern when federal courts order prisoners be set free. [read post]
28 Nov 2010, 2:20 pm
The lawmakers enacted the Prison Litigation Reform Act, with much of the limited debate preceding passage focusing on what the legislators thought were frivolous claims by inmates. [read post]
21 May 2012, 9:05 am
Last Thursday’s release of the long-delayed national Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) regulations by the Department of Justice reminds us of the hundreds of prison rape victims we’ve heard from over the years who could not seek justice because the prison officials who failed to protect them were essentially immunized from liability by a 1996 federal law, the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA). [read post]
11 Sep 2022, 8:40 am
That verdict is now gone, the victim of both the Prison Litigation Reform Act and qualified immunity.The case is Walker v. [read post]
18 May 2015, 1:45 pm
As we summarized in our argument preview, the issue before the Court arises from the language of the so-called “three strikes” provision of the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996, 28 U.S.C. [read post]
31 May 2016, 3:24 am
” The Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996, a Clinton-era solution, was enacted to eliminate the frivolous, overly burdensome deluge of prisoner lawsuits. [read post]
5 Apr 2007, 10:41 pm
What is more, prisoners' ability to legally challenge their living conditions has been curtailed by a congressional roadblock called the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996, which has cut in half the number of inmates filing civil rights complaints.A third book review focuses on the effects of mass incarceration on voter disenfranchisement. [read post]
21 Dec 2009, 6:21 am
Now comes an effort to revise the pleading standard (yes pleading standards, I know) for claims brought under the Prison Litigation Reform Act: Congress included the physical injury requirement in the Prison Litigation Reform Act, which it passed in 1996 to deter inmates from bringing frivolous lawsuits. [read post]
14 Jul 2022, 6:38 am
Under the Prison Litigation Reform Act, inmates must file an internal grievance with the jail before they can bring suit in federal court over their civil rights violations. [read post]
21 Jun 2011, 6:45 am
We will begin by implementing the Prisoners’ Earnings Act 1996 and legislating to extend our powers to deduct and use money earned by prisoners to support victims; and · Overhauling unpaid work obligations so that offenders work longer hours, carrying out purposeful, unpaid activity that benefits their local community; Progression · Getting more offenders off drugs and alcohol for good, by piloting an initial five drug recovery… [read post]
3 Sep 2014, 1:28 pm
(The Prison Litigation Reform Act, for example, was placed into a budget bill back in 1996.) [read post]
23 Jun 2013, 10:07 pm
There are needles in this haystack.At the federal level, Congress responded to the glut of prisoner litigation by the passage of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (“PLRA”) and the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (“AEDPA”) in 1996. [read post]
