Legal Opinion
Turner v. Burnside
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 28, 2008No. 07-14791PublishedCited by 501 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARNES, Circuit Judge:
Willie Turner, an inmate at the Men’s State Prison in Hardwick, Georgia, filed a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 lawsuit against various officials and employees of the Georgia Department of Corrections who worked at the prison. His lawsuit claimed that he had been subjected to cruel and unusual punishment as a result of an incident in which he was deliberately exposed to electrical shock. After the district court dismissed Turner’s complaint for failure to exhaust his administrative remedies as required by the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995, 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a), he filed this…
2Cases cited16 opinions
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