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Administrative Remedies Need Not Identify Wrongdoers
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2001
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2001, page 6
The Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has held that prisoners do not need to identify those persons directly involved in the alleged deprivations in their administrative remedies to satisfy the exhaustion requirement of 42 U.S.C. § 1997(e)a. Prisoner Raymond Brown filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action and …
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