Legal Opinion

Griffin v. DeTella

District Court, N.D. Illinois

Decided September 18, 1998No. 98 C 618PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

SHADUR, Senior District Judge.

When Stateville Correctional Center (“Stateville”) inmate Horace Griffin (“Griffin”) originally tendered his self-prepared 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (“Section 1983”) Complaint charging alleged violations of his constitutional rights by various Stateville officials (beginning at the top with Warden George DeTella), this Court (1) granted Griffin leave to proceed in forma pauperis in accordance with the 1996 Prison Litigation Reform Act (“Act”) but (2) noted that Griffin’s “sprawling claims” (a) had left open the question whether he had exhausted…

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