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Seventh Circuit Prisoners Must Exhaust Futile Grievance Remedies
Loaded on April 15, 2000
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2000, page 22
In two separate rulings, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has held that prisoners must exhaust administrative remedies before filing suit, regardless of the relief sought and no matter how ineffectual the prison grievance system may be.
Filed under:
Medical,
Injury -- Misc.,
Hernias,
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA),
Defenses,
Complaints.
Locations:
Illinois,
Wisconsin.
Eduardo Perez, a Wisconsin state prisoner incarcerated in Texas, slipped, fell and injured ...
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