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No Exhaustion Required for Money Damage Claims
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1998, page 15
A federal district court in Illinois held that where prison administrative remedies do not provide for money damages there is no administrative remedy available for prisoner plaintiffs to exhaust within the meaning of 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a) of the PLRA. Section 1997e(a) requires that any available administrative remedies be exhausted ...
Filed under:
Injury -- Misc.,
Conditions of Confinement,
Failure to Protect (General),
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA),
Damages.
Location:
Illinois.
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