Johnson v. Poulin

Gary Dewayne Johnson appeals a district court judgment that determined that the Prisoner Litigation Reform Act (“PLRA”), 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a), barred his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim against prison officer, Robert Thyng, because Johnson had failed to exhaust all of his administrative remedies. We affirm.

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In 2007, Johnson was incarcerated at New Hampshire’s Northern Correctional Facility (“NCF”). That facility has a three level grievance process, each level corresponding to review by an increasingly higher office in the chain of command. The first level of grievance is to the inmate’s Unit Manager;…