Does a prisoner have to exhaust his administrative remedies for constitutional claims before filing a civil rights complaint?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Hunter v. Do-Williams, No. 2:15-cv-1971 KJNP (E.D. Cal. 2017):
A prisoner must exhaust his administrative remedies for constitutional claims prior to asserting them in a civil rights complaint. 42 U.S.C. 1997e(a); McKinney v. Carey, 311 F.3d 1198, 1199 (9th Cir. 2002). If a prisoner exhausts a claim after bringing it before the court, his
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