Legal Opinion
Ramirez v. Young
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 9, 2018No. 15-3298PublishedCited by 176 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Wood, Chief Judge.
*533Under the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PLRA), "[n]o action shall be brought with respect to prison conditions under [ 42 U.S.C. § 1983 ], or any other Federal law, by a prisoner ... until such administrative remedies as are available are exhausted." 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a) (emphasis added). This appeal concerns the availability of administrative remedies described to a prisoner by prison officials only in a language they knew he could not understand. We hold that this was not enough to render those remedies "available" to the prisoner. We therefore reverse the judgment…
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