Barry Krisberg quoted in The Times-Picayune, April 9, 2013
A 1995 federal law, the Prison Litigation Reform Act, “specifies all kinds of things that have to happen both in terms of lawsuits and limitations on the powers of the federal court to oversee prisons and jails,” said Krisberg…. “It says that you’ve promised to make changes, but you’ve failed to make changes after substantial periods of time. Judges are extraordinarily reluctant to do this.”