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PLRA and AEDPA Have Different Effects on Prisoner Petitions
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2002
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2002, page 29
In a December 2001 special report, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, a division of the U.S. Department of Justice, determined that the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) and the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) have had significant, but differing, effects on the filing rates of prisoner petitions. The ...
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