SHANNON HALLETT; YVONNE WOOD; GAIL RAY; CINDY STEWART; RENA SKILTON, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. DONNA MORGAN, Health Care Manager, in her official and individual capacities, and BELINDA STEWART, Superintendent, Washington Corrections Center for Women, in her official capacity, and their officers, agents, employees, and successors; and ALICE PAYNE, in her individual capacity, Defendants-Appellees., 296 F.3d 732

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The circuit court held: (1) the district court properly limited the scope of the evidentiary hearing to the dental and mental health provisions of the consent decree, because of lack of timely notice of their intent to seek extension of any other provisions; (2) the prospective-relief provisions of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), 18 U.S.C.S. § 3626, applied to the motion to extend the decree; (3) based on the district court's findings of fact, which were not clearly erroneous, the conditions of confinement did not violate the Eighth Amendment and, therefore, the PLRA mandated that the motion to extend the decree be denied; (4) a motion to terminate the consent decree was moot; (5) the district court did not abuse its discretion in finding that the officials had substantially complied with the dental and mental health provisions of the consent decree, however, the court improperly declined to consider whether the officials had substantially complied with the other health care ...