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PLRA Does Not Apply to Released Prisoner
Loaded on June 15, 2006
published in Prison Legal News
June, 2006, page 38
In remanding for further proceedings, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the administrative exhaustion requirement of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) does not apply to persons not imprisoned when the suit is filed.
Filed under:
PLRA,
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA),
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Pepper Spray/Tear Gas,
Restraints,
State Law Claims,
Complaints.
Location:
Oklahoma.
Before the Tenth Circuit was the appeal of former prisoner Lois Harold Norton, who ...
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