Legal Opinion
Ronnie W. Carroll v. Dale R. Yates
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 2, 2004No. 01-2931PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
More than six years ago Ronnie Carroll, an Illinois state prisoner, brought suit in federal district court under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against prison guards who, he charged, had inflicted cruel and unusual punishment on him in violation of his Eighth Amendment rights. The district court dismissed the suit on the ground that Carroll had failed to exhaust his administrative remedies, as required by the Prison Litigation Reform Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a). He had in fact pursued his prison grievance procedures up to the top level, the prison’s Administrative Review Board, 20 Ill.…
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