U.S. district court: PLRA--Prison Litigation Reform Act exhaustion; Blackmon v. Crawford.

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Blackmon v. Crawford, 305 F.Supp.2d 1174 (D.Nev. 2004). A state prison inmate brought a pro se [section] 1983 action against prison officials for violation of his Eighth Amendment rights, when they allegedly failed to provide adequate medical treatment. The district court held that the inmate did not exhaust his administrative remedies, as required under the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), for his claim that a doctor failed to properly treat his hepatitis C condition. The court found that the PLRA's...