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PLRA Physical Injury Requirement Not Retroactive

The Tenth circuit court of appeals held that the Prison Litigation Reform Act's physical injury requirement, codified at 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(e), does not apply retroactively to lawsuits filed before the PLRA's enactment on April 26, 1996. Bobby Craig, a pretrial detainee at the Otero county jail in La Junta, ...

 

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