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Suit Over NY Protective Custody Conditions Dismissed

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Medical, Medication, Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Denial of Religious Services. Location: New York.

The plaintiffs complained of conditions in protective custody. They could
not represent a class because they were proceeding pro se.

The case is dismissed for non-exhaustion. Even if one plaintiff's letters
of complaint were adequate to exhaust (which they probably are not), he
would be barred because he sent the …

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