Legal Opinion

James Benjamin v. Michael Jacobson, Commissioner of the Department of Correction of the City of New York

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Decided August 26, 1997No. 928, Docket 96-7957PublishedCited by 48 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

CALABRESI, Circuit Judge.

I. Background

This ease concerns the applicability of the recently enacted Prison Litigation Reform Act, Pub.L. No. 104-134, 110 Stat. 1321 (1996) (the “PLRA” or the “Act”), to a set of consent decrees and supplemental orders (collectively the “Consent Decrees”) entered into by New York and by pre-trial detainees in the New York City jails. The main question before us is the constitutionality of a provision of the PLRA under which motions can be made for the immediate termination of “prospective relief’ mandated by the Consent Decrees. 18 U.S.C. § 3626(b). After…

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