United States Ninth Circuit

The Prison Litigation Reform Act's exhaustion requirement applies with equal force to prisoners held in private prisons. Dismissal of prisoner plaintiff's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 complaint asserting First and Fourteenth Amendment claims is affirmed due to a failure to exhaust his administrative remedies.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/28/2006
• Published 02/28/2006

Judges

• FISHER, Circuit Judge:, Before: LEAVY, RYMER and FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Raymond A. Roles, Boise, ID, pro se plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Kirtlan G. Naylor and Carlton R. Ericson, Naylor, Hales & McCreedy, P.C., Boise, ID, for the defendant-appellee.