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Prison Beating Claim Subject to Exhaustion

Loaded on Aug. 15, 2008

Filed under: Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA), Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings. Location: Georgia.

Use of force claims are prison conditions claims for purposes of exhaustion.

At 1365: The court treats exhaustion as jurisdictional, interpreting a line in Alexander v. Hawk for more than it probably is worth and ignoring all contrary case law. A statement from the DOC Legal Services Office stating that …

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