Legal Opinion
Medina-Claudio v. Commonwealth of PR
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 4, 2002No. 01-2153, 01-2278PublishedCited by 117 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.
Invoking 42 U.S.C. § 1983, plaintiff-appellant Victor Medina-Claudio filed suit in district court alleging that the prison conditions under which he was housed in Puerto Rico violated his constitutional rights. His case was dismissed by the district court for failure to exhaust admin- istratiye remedies, as required by the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (“PLEA”), Pub.L. No. 104-134, 110 Stat. 1321 (1996).
Because we conclude that the appellant was required to first submit his claim to the prison’s internal grievance process, we affirm the order of the district…
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