The following excerpt is from Darden v. Spencer, 1:12-cv-01001-EPG-PC (E.D. Cal. 2016):
2. Ross v. Blake, 136 S.Ct. 1850, 1859 (2016) (An inmate must exhaust available remedies, but need not exhaust unavailable ones, and an administrative procedure is unavailable when it is not capable of use and operates as a simple dead endwith officers unable or consistently unwilling to provide any relief to aggrieved inmates).
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