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Prisoner's Release Fails to Excuse PLRA's Exhaustion Requirement
Loaded on Feb. 15, 2005
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2005, page 24
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held the Prison Litigation Reform Act's (PLRA) administrative remedy exhaustion requirement was not excused by the fact the plaintiff had been released at the time the district court considered the motion to dismiss. While a prisoner at a Tennessee federal special needs prison, Jerry ...
Filed under:
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA),
Excessive Force,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Complaints,
Involuntary Treatment/Drugging.
Location:
Tennessee.
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