In 2009, Jeremy Pinson, a prisoner serving twenty years at the Federal Correctional Institution in Talladega, Alabama, challenged the constitutionally of his confinement conditions. See Pinson v. Samuels, 761 F.3d 1, 2–3 (D.C. Cir. 2014). Pinson...
PRISON LITIGATION REFORM ACT
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Andre Lee Coleman is a prisoner in the state of Michigan, and he has filed at least three actions or appeals of the type proscribed by the Prison Litigation Reform Act (“PLRA”), 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g). See Coleman v. Tollefson et al., 733 F.3d 175, 176 (...
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Congress enacted the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (“PLRA”). See 42 U.S.C. 1997e(a). The PLRA requires that “[n]o action shall be brought with respect to prison conditions . . . by a prisoner confined in any jail, prison, or other correctional...
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The plaintiffs in Coleman v. Schwarzenegger filed a class action in 1990, alleging that the failure to provide services to inmates with mental disabilities in the California prison system violated their rights under the Eighth Amendment, the Fourteenth...