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BOP Medical Detainees Not Subject to PLRA

Loaded on May 15, 2004 published in Prison Legal News May, 2004, page 33
Filed under: PLRA, Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Civil Commitment. Location: Missouri.
In a brief per curiam opinion, the court of appeals for the Eighth circuit held that a Federal Medical Center detainee in Missouri was exempt from the administrative exhaustion provisions of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a).


The court held that civilly committed detainees are not ...

 

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