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D.C. Circuit Holds PLRA’s Exhaustion Requirement Inapplicable to Former Prisoner
Loaded on March 15, 2014
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2014, page 41
The Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has held that the administrative exhaustion requirement of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) does not apply to suits filed by persons who are no longer incarcerated.The lawsuit at issue, filed by former prisoner John B. Lesesne, alleged permanent, ...
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