Dole v. Chandler

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• concluding that a prisoner exhausted when he had “already given the prison administrative process an opportunity to resolve his complaint”
• holding that when a grievance “remains unresolved through no apparent fault” of the inmate, the administrative remedies are rendered unavailable
• holding that administrative rem- edies are unavailable if prison officials “do not respond to a properly filed grievance”
• concluding that, even though plaintiff’s grievance was lost in the mail and never reached the Board, plaintiff exhausted his administrative remedies because he had properly placed his grievance in the mail
• holding that exhaustion is necessary even “if the prisoner believes that exhaustion is futile. The sole objective of § 1997e(a) is to permit the prison’s administrative process to run its course before litigation begins”
• holding that Illinois prisoner exhausted available remedies where he properly submitted grievance and alerted Administrative Review Board that grievance had been submitted, but Board failed to instruct him on how to proceed after grievance was lost

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