Legal Opinion
Inmates of Suffolk County Jail v. Rouse
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 10, 1997No. 97-1261, 97-1262, 97-1263 and 97-1334PublishedCited by 101 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
The passage of the Prison Litigation Reform Act, 18 U.S.C.A. § 3626 (Supp.1997) (the PLRA or the Act), brought cheers to the lips of many prison administrators. In its wake, the Sheriff of Suffolk County and the Massachusetts Commissioner of Correction (collectively, the defendants) cast their gaze toward a consent decree that has governed important aspects of the county’s handling of pretrial detainees since 1979. Spying an opportunity to sever the shackles of judicial oversight, the defendants invoked the new law and asked the supervising tribunal, the United States…
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