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Massachusetts Court Avoids Ruling on Consent Decree Termination

A federal district court in Massachusetts avoided ruling on the constitutionality of the Prison Litigation Reform Act's (PLRA) provisions requiring immediate termination of jail and prison consent decrees, 18 U.S.C. § 3626(b)(2), by refusing to vacate a jail consent decree but instead holding the decree would no longer be enforced ...

 

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