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7th Circuit: PLRA Exhaustion Requirements Retroactive; BOP Has Late Grievance Hardship Exception
Loaded on Jan. 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
January, 2003, page 27
The Seventh Circuit Court of Ap-peals held that the administrative exhaustion provisions of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) apply retroactively.
Filed under:
Prison Rebellion,
Lockdowns,
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA),
Excessive Force,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Municipal Liability.
Location:
Illinois.
In October 1995, federal prisoner Anthony McCoy was housed at the Federal Correctional Institution in Greenville, Illinois, (Greenville): an overcrowded medium security facility.
By October 1995, tensions had been ...
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