Peter Lewis v. Odie Washington, Director, Illinois Department of Corrections, Mary Nichols, Richard Gramley, Lieutenant Shaw, and Lieutenant Jones

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• holding that a prison’s failure to respond to a grievance would make remedies “unavailable” and thus the prisoner would have exhausted
• holding that administrative remedies become “unavailable” when prison offi- cials fail to respond to inmate grievances
• recognizing that administrative remedies are unavailable when prison officials do not respond to grievances
• recognizing that administrative remedies are unavailable when prison officials do not respond to grievances
• holding prisoner exhausted available remedies where prison officials failed to respond to his informal grievances
• noting that the Fifth Circuit’s application of estoppel to PLRA exhaustion was “persuasive,” but not deciding whether estoppel applies to PLRA exhaustion because plaintiff did not present facts to establish estoppel

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