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Sixth Circuit Says Ohio Prisoner’s Lack of Tablet Access May Have Prevented Grievance Exhaustion
Loaded on April 1, 2023
by David Reutter
published in Prison Legal News
April, 2023, page 42
Filed under:
Administrative Exhaustion,
Grievances,
Electronically Stored Information,
Access Devices.
Location:
Ohio.
by David M. Reutter
Technology giveth and technology taketh away – even in prison. That was the conclusion of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on October 26, 2022, when it reversed dismissal of an Ohio prisoner’s civil rights action, finding a viable dispute regarding exhaustion of ...
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