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PLRA Only Requires Exhaustion of Applicable Remedies
Loaded on June 15, 2004
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2004, page 40
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Filed under:
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA),
Excessive Force,
Guard Brutality/Beatings.
Location:
New York.
Second Circuit has reversed a federal district court dismissal of a prisoner's civil rights lawsuit for failure to exhaust available administrative remedies, as required by the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a). The Second Circuit found that prisoners must exhaust …
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