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BOP Prisoners Must Exhaust Administrative Remedies
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1992
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1992, page 5
PLN recently reported the U.S. Supreme Court decision in McCarthy v. Madigan , 503 US ___, 112 S.Ct. 1081 (1992), which held that federal prisoners did not have to exhaust administrative remedies (the grievance system) prior to filing suit in federal court. In McCarthy a Bureau of Prisons (BOP) prisoner …
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