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Abstract
Prisoners often seek redress in federal courts through causes of action brought under 42 U.S.C. Section 19831 for violations of their constitutional rights caused by the overall condition of their confinement or by one specific condition or incident. Although commentators disagree over the extent to which these cases burden federal district courts, they agree that prisoner litigation constitutes a large percentage of the civil rights litigation in district courts. One of the attractions of prison privatization for state and local governments is the belief that contracting prison management to private firms will relieve the government of the burden of defending the multitude of individual and class-wide civil rights actions and the expense of complying with comprehensive and often financially burdensome court orders.'
Recommended Citation
Susan L. Kay,
The Implications of Prison Privatization on the Conduct of Prisoner Litigation Under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983,
40 Vanderbilt Law Review
867
(1987)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/vlr/vol40/iss4/4