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PLRA Exhaustion Requirement Jurisdictional
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1997, page 18
A federal district court in Arizona held that the PLRA's administrative exhaustion requirement, codified at 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a), requires prisoners to exhaust administrative remedies and the failure to do so deprives the court of subject matter jurisdiction. Dallas Morgan, an Arizona state prisoner, filed suit claiming prison guards endangered ...
Filed under:
Sex Offenders (Discrimination),
Gay/Lesbian,
Conditions of Confinement,
Failure to Protect (General),
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA).
Location:
Arizona.
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