Privatization by Puerto Rico of Prison Inmates' Medical and Mental Health Services Upheld for the Time Being; Ruling Not Disturbed
Feliciano v. Rullan, 378 F.3d 42 (1st Cir. 2004)
Since the 1970s, class action lawsuits have been brought against many states challenging the medical and mental health care provided in their correctional systems. In part because many of these lawsuits deeply enmeshed the federal courts in the supervision of prisons and jails for an extended period of time, Congress enacted the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) in 1996 to curb the involvement of the federal courts in day-to-day prison management...