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PLRA Applies to Juveniles; Claim Administratively Exhausted
Loaded on March 15, 2003
published in Prison Legal News
October, 2004, page 23
Filed under:
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA),
Excessive Force,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Burning.
Location:
New York.
A New York federal district court has held that the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) applies to juvenile prisoners, and the juvenile's actions to air his grievance informally satisfied the PLRA's administrative remedy exhaustion requirement. Corey Lewis, a delinquent resident of the Tyron Residential Facility in Johnston, New York, …
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