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advantages
filing
grievances
soon
alleged
injury
occurs
courts
regularly
resolve
litigation
without
draconian
time
limitations
rate
discussed
legislation
pursue
one
purpose
costs
marginal
advantages
encouraging
compliance
short
time
limitations
justify
judicially
rewriting
plra
exhaustion
requirement
engrafting
procedural
default
sanction
statute
indeed
anything
worse
effect
meritorious
claims
prisoners
file
frivolous
claims
probably
likely
repeat
filers
learn
ins
outs
procedural
requirements
see
daskalea
district
columbia
cadc
discussing
female
prisoner
underwear
confiscated
placed
solitary
confinement
without
mattress
result
talking
prison
officials
sexual
assaults
harassment
guards
subjected
comprehensive
discussion
state
prison
grievance
system
filing
deadlines
see
brief
american
civil
liberties
union
et
al
amici
curiae
brief
jerome
frank
legal
services
organization
yale
law
school
amicus
curiae