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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. JERRY M.

No. 96-CV-1408.

717 A.2d 866 (1998)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, et al., Appellants, v. JERRY M., et al., Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 3, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lutz Alexander Prager, Assistant Deputy Corporation Counsel, with whom Jo Anne Robinson, Interim Corporation Counsel at the time the brief was filed, and Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corporation Counsel, were on the brief, for appellants.

David A. Reiser, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein, Public Defender Service, was on the brief, for appellees.

Before TERRY and SCHWELB, Associate Judges, and BELSON, Senior Judge.

SCHWELB, Associate Judge:

In the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PLRA), Pub.L. No. 104-134, 110 Stat. 1321 (1996), Congress amended several different titles of the United States Code in a comprehensive effort to curtail the ability of prisoners to challenge the conditions of their confinement. Section 802 of the PLRA, known as STOP,1 severely limited the remedies available to plaintiffs in litigation over prison conditions. See...

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