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Plata V. Brown And Realignment: Jails, Prisons, Courts, And Politics, Margo Schlanger
Plata V. Brown And Realignment: Jails, Prisons, Courts, And Politics, Margo Schlanger
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The year 2011 marked an important milestone in American institutional reform litigation. That year, a bare majority of the U.S. Supreme Court, in an opinion in Brown v. Plata by Justice Anthony Kennedy, affirmed a district court order requiring California to remedy its longstanding constitutional deficits in prison medical and mental health care by reducing prison crowding. Not since 1978 had the Court ratified a lower court's crowding-related order in a jail or prison case, and the order before the Court in 2011 was fairly aggressive; theoretically, it could have (although this was never a real prospect) induced the release …
Reform And Regret: The Story Of Federal Judicial Involvement In The Alabama Prison System, Steven M. Farina
Reform And Regret: The Story Of Federal Judicial Involvement In The Alabama Prison System, Steven M. Farina
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Reform and Regret: The Story of Federal Judicial Involvement in the Alabama Prison System by Larry W. Yackle