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PLRA Allows Sua Sponte Dismissal
Loaded on May 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1997, page 9
A federal district court in Illinois held that the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) allows courts to assess filing fees and then dismiss prisoner petitions prior to service on the defendants if they fail to state a claim. Deangelo Jones is an Illinois state prisoner who protested being removed from ...
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