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Grievances Exhausted When Prison Officials Fail to Respond

The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that when prison officials fail to respond to administrative remedies, those remedies are rendered "unavailable" and deemed exhausted under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA). The court also held that prison officials were not estopped from raising an exhaustion defense.


In October 1997, ...

 

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