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PLRA 'Strike' Removed
Loaded on March 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1997, page 14
A federal district court in Maryland issued an order removing a PLRA "strike" against a prisoner litigant. The Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) added section (g) to 28 U.S.C. § 1915. The new section states that whenever a prisoner has had three suits dismissed as frivolous or for failing to ...
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