Randy Swisher v. Porter County Sheriff's Depar

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• excusing a plaintiff’s failure to properly exhaust administrative remedies due to “a muddle created by the people running the jail”
• A prisoner need not exhaust a grievance procedure where the warden told the prisoner not to file a grievance because the prison would resolve the issue informally and then refused to issue a blank grievance form.
• A prisoner need not exhaust a grievance procedure where the warden told the prisoner not to file a grievance because the prison would resolve the issue informally and then refused to issue a blank grievance form.
• inmate entitled to assume he did not have to file a written grievance where told by officials not to do so because the problem was being resolved and where he was not informed as to how to invoke formal procedures
• inmate entitled to assume he did not have to file a written grievance where told by officials not to do so because the problem was being resolved and where he was not informed as to how to invoke formal procedures

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).