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Claim Exhausted When Prison Refuses Grievance Appeal

Loaded on Oct. 15, 2000 published in Prison Legal News October, 2000, page 22
Filed under: Disabled Prisoners, Retaliation for Filing Grievances, Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings. Location: Georgia.
The court of appeals for the Eleventh circuit held that a Georgia prisoner had exhausted his administrative remedies as required under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) when the prison refused to process his grievance appeal.

Tracy Miller, a paraplegic Georgia state prisoner, filed suit claiming 11 prison guards dragged ...

 

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