Davis v. Warman

OPINION

GARTH, Circuit Judge.

This case presents the question whether a prisoner may bring suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 even though he has not exhausted administrative remedies, as a provision of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (“PLRA”) requires. Appellant Anthony Davis appeals from the District Court’s dismissal of his suit for failure to exhaust these remedies.

We affirm.

I

On March 16, 1998, Anthony Davis, an inmate at the Pennsylvania State Correctional Institution at Greensburg, was beaten by another inmate, Duncan Plowden, in the kitchen area where the two inmates were working. This attack…