Prison Litigation Under the PLRA: Gatekeeping and the Prisoner Plaintiff: A Field Manual

The Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) is the most consequential procedural statute in federal prison litigation. It dictates when a prisoner can sue, how she must exhaust administrative remedies before suing, what filing fees she owes, how many strikes she has, and when a court must dismiss her case before the defendants ever answer. Misread any of these mechanics and the case is gone - not on the merits, but on a gate the statute built.

Prison Litigation Under the PLRA: A Field Manual, Vo...