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Comments on the March 23, 2006 ruling handed down by a New York appellate court ordering the state legislature to provide an additional funding for operating the New York City schools and for construction.

Opinion. Reports that federal courts control New York City prisons. Second Circuit Court of Appeals defying of Congress' decision to bring an end to federal court supervision of state and local prisons; Number of states that federal courts control state and local prisons; Efforts by governors and mayors to change prison policy; Reference to the Prison Litigation Reform Act.

Reports that in February 1998, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in the United States, convened to hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996. What the federal law required courts to do; Reference to the book `Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State: How the Courts Reformed America's Prisons,' by Malcolm Feeley and Edward Rubin; Aim of lawyers and judges who formed the prison reform movement in the 1960s.