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HARRIS v. GARNER

No. 98-8899.

216 F.3d 970 (2000)

Frederick Lamar HARRIS, Danny Chadwick, et. al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Wayne GARNER, Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Corrections, A.G. Thomas, Director of Facilities Division of the Georgia Department of Corrections, et. al., Defendants-Appellees, United States of America, Intervenor-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

June 27, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tamara H. Serwer, Southern Center for Human Rights, Stephen B. Bright, Atlanta, GA, Peter R. Maier, Dept. of Justice, Civil Appellate Div., Washington, DC, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Diane Festin Laross, Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy LLP, Atlanta, GA, for Defendants-Appellees and Intervenor-Appellee.

Before ANDERSON, Chief Judge, and TJOFLAT, EDMONDSON, COX, BIRCH, DUBINA, BLACK, CARNES, BARKETT, HULL, MARCUS and WILSON, Circuit Judges.

CARNES, Circuit Judge:

In an effort to stem the flood of prisoner lawsuits in federal court, Congress enacted the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995, Pub.L. No. 104-134, 110 Stat. 1321 (1996) ("PLRA"). One of the provisions of the PLRA states that:

No Federal civil action may be brought by a prisoner confined in a jail, prison, or other correctional facility, for mental or emotional injury suffered while in custody without a prior showing of physical injury...

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