United States Tenth Circuit

Exhaustion of available administrative remedies is an essential allegation in a prisoner's complaint under the Prison Litigation Reform Act section 1997e(a); a dismissal based on lack of exhaustion should ordinarily be without prejudice. To ensure compliance, prisoner must provide a comprehensible statement of his claim and either attach copies of administrative proceedings or describe the disposition with specificity.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/29/2003
• Published 12/29/2003

Judges

• BALDOCK, Circuit Judge., Before HARTZ, BALDOCK, and McCONNELL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Submitted on the briefs :  Victor Steele, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• John W. Suthers, United States Attorney, and John M. Hutchins, Assistant United States Attorney, Denver, CO, for Defendants-Appellees.