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Administrative Remedies Exhausted When Response Time Elapses
Loaded on Dec. 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
December, 1999, page 22
The court of appeals for the Fifth circuit held that prison administrative remedies are deemed exhausted when the time period for the prison's response elapses, regardless of whether or not the prison has responded.
Filed under:
Disciplinary Hearings,
False Charges (Disciplinary Hearings),
Failure to Protect (General),
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA).
Location:
Texas.
42 U.S.C. § 1997e requires that prisoners exhaust available administrative remedies before they can file suit ...
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