Kaleidoscopic Consent Decrees: School Desegregation and Prison Reform Consent Decrees After the Prison Litigation Reform Act and Freeman-Dowell

Prison Litigation Reform Act: Congressional Statute Not Open to Judicial Discretion.

Lieutenant Lane. On the other hand, under the Model Penal Code interpretation, the brief time lapse would not have precluded an EED defense. Regarding prison culture, although Mr. Johnson was denied access to records related to general prison violence on the basis of relevance, in that the records were not necessary for the preparation of his defense, one could argue that such records would hav...

Intended and Unintended Consequences of Prison Reform∗

Since the 1970s, U.S. federal courts have issued court orders condemning state prison crowding. However, the impact of these court orders on prison spending and prison conditions is theoretically ambiguous because it is unclear if these court orders are enforceable. We examine states’ responses to court interventions and show that these interventions generate higher per inmate incarceration cos...

Bumps in the Road to the Courthouse: The Supreme Court and the Prison Litigation Reform Act t

It seems a little strange that a lawyer who has spent a professional lifetime in correctional law either representing correctional agencies or what might be called the "correctional middle" as a commentator on legal issues in the field, but who has never represented an inmate in a court of law, would be writing about problems lawyers who do represent inmates face in regard to litigating on beha...

Compensatory Damages Are Not for Everyone: Section 1997e(e) of the Prison Litigation Reform Act and the Overlooked Amendment

Termination of Desegregation Decrees and the Elusive Meaning of Unitary Status