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Prisoners Not Required to Take Unspecified Steps to Exhaust Administrative Remedies
Loaded on Feb. 8, 2017
published in Prison Legal News
February, 2017, page 53
Filed under:
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA),
Administrative Exhaustion,
Grievances.
Locations:
Ohio,
United States of America.
On February 25, 2016, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals concluded a prisoner’s suit had been improperly dismissed when he “failed to do something not specified, outlined, or required by his prison’s grievance procedure.”
Before the Court was the appeal of Ohio state prisoner Shannon E. Troche. The appeal followed ...
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