Jeffery B. Hicks v. Martha L. Jordan

Jeffery B. Hicks, a pro se federal prisoner, appeals the district court’s dismissal of his petition for writ of habeas corpus, which was filed pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241. Hicks’s petition was dismissed because he failed to exhaust his administrative remedies, and alternatively, on the merits. On appeal, Hicks argues that the Government waived any failure to exhaust administrative remedies because the Government addressed the substance of Hicks’s claims in its arguments. Hicks also contends that because he wrote several letters to the Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”) regarding his nunc pro tunc…