Pandemic Rules: COVID-19 and the Prison Litigation Reform Act's Exhaustion Requirement

Authors

Margo Schlanger, University of Michigan School of LawFollow
Betsy Ginsberg, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2022

Abstract

For over twenty-five years, the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), one of the few parts of the 1990s Republican Contract with America actually enacted, has undermined the constitutional rights of incarcerated people. For people behind bars and their allies, the PLRA makes civil rights cases harder to bring and harder to win-regardless of merit.

Recommended Citation

Schlanger, Margo and Besty Ginsberg. "Pandemic Rules: COVID-19 and the Prison Litigation Reform Act's Exhaustion Requirement." Case Western Law Review 72, no. 3 (2022): 533.