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Administrative Exhaustion Doesn't Include Judicial Remedies
Loaded on March 15, 1999
published in Prison Legal News
March, 1999, page 12
The court of appeals for the Third circuit held that the Prison Litigation Reform Act's (PLRA) administrative exhaustion requirement does not include judicial exhaustion as well. Hassan Jenkins, a New Jersey state prisoner, filed suit in federal court claiming his due process rights were violated in a prison disciplinary hearing …
Filed under:
Disciplinary Hearings,
Disciplinary Litigation,
Administrative Exhaustion (PLRA).
Location:
New Jersey.
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