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Federal Prisoners Must Exhaust Administrative Remedies Before Suing
Loaded on June 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
June, 1999, page 18
The court of appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has held that federal prisoners must exhaust administrative remedies before filing a Bivens suit against prison officials.
Filed under:
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA),
Mail,
Sexually Explicit Materials.
Location:
Florida.
Michael Alexander, a federal prisoner, filed a Bivens suit challenging the constitutionality of prison regulations prohibiting prisoners from receiving certain sexually explicit materials, 28 C.F.R. ...
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