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PLRA Physical Injury and Administrative Exhaustion Requirements Not Retroactive

A federal district court in Illinois held that 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a), which requires administrative exhaustion before prisoners file suit, and 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(e), which requires physical injury, before prisoners can file suit, do not apply retroactively to suits filed before the PLRA's enactment on April 26, 1996. In ...

 

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