Legal Opinion
Darreyll Thomas v. Michael Reese
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 1, 2015No. 14-3406PublishedCited by 326 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAMILTON, Circuit Judge.
Darreyll Thomas, a Wisconsin prisoner, alleges in this lawsuit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 that when he was in the Dane County Jail, several county correctional officers unlawfully used excessive force in the course of handcuffing him after he disobeyed an order. The district court granted summary judgment for the defendants on the ground that Thomas had not exhausted his available administrative remedies as required by the Prison Litigation Reform Act. See 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a). We conclude that administrative remedies were not actually available to Thomas, so we reverse…
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