Legal Opinion
Richard Wagoner v. Indiana Department of Correcti
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 4, 2015No. 13-3839PublishedCited by 418 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOD, Chief Judge.
This appeal requires us to revisit the rule imposed by the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) requiring a prisoner to exhaust any available administrative remedies before challenging her conditions of confinement in a federal court. See 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a). Often exhaustion (or its lack) will be apparent, but when it is not, the district court must hold an eviden-tiary hearing to resolve the question. See Pavey v. Conley, 544 F.3d 739 (7th Cir.2008). A Pavey hearing serves a limited but important role: it helps the judge decide whether the court or the prison is the proper…
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