Sixth Circuit· 4/28/2010

Reed-Bey v. Pramstaller

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603 F.3d 322
2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 8752
2010 WL 1687753

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ruling that the prisoner properly exhausted his claim, despite failure to comply with prison procedural rules, where prison officials chose to address the prisoner's grievance on the merits
observing that a prisoner complies with MDOCPD130 by specifying the “ ‘[d]ates, times, places and names of all those involved in the issue being grieved’ in their initial grievance” (citation omitted)
recognizing an exception to the prison’s name requirement where the prison did not enforce that rule
holding inmate exhausted his claims despite failing to name a defendant in his initial grievance where inmate still received merits-based responses at each step
noting that, “above all,” the goal of the PLRA’s exhaustion requirement is “to give state officials a realistic opportunity to correct their own mistakes before federal courts intervene”
finding that incarcerated plaintiff had properly exhausted claim, even though he had “fail[ed] to name a single individual in his initial grievance,” because the Department of Corrections “overlooked (or perhaps forgave

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Judges: Guy, Boggs, Sutton

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