U.S. District Court: EXCESSIVE FORCE RESTRAINTS.

• Position: Prisoners and prisons - Brief Article

Concepcion v. Morton 125 F.Supp.2d 111 (D.N.J. 2000). Prisoners brought an action against corrections officers and officials under [ss] 1983 asserting violation of their civil rights through the use of excessive force on two separate occasions. The district court held that an informal inmate complaint procedure that was established by a prison warden did not constitute an "administrative remedy" within the meaning of the Prison Litigation Reform Act...