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Impact of Prisoner Litigation Reform, 1992-2000 [United States]
Principal Investigator(s): Cheesman II, Fred L.; Hanson, Roger A.; Ostrom, Brian J.
Summary: In 1996, the United States Congress enacted two policies to regulate the use of the legal system by state prisoners. They were the Prisoner Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) and the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA). The purpose of this research project was to examine whether the PLRA and the AEDPA had their intended effects of reducing the number of Section 1983 lawsuits and habeas corpus petitions, respectively, at both the national and circuit court levels. The researche... (view details)
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20354
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This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) , the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention .
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