ARTIS-BEY v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 03-CV-220.

884 A.2d 626 (2005)

Freddie ARTIS-BEY, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided October 13, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Geoffrey D. Allen, Washington, DC, for appellant.

Michael F. Wasserman, Assistant Attorney General for the District of Columbia at the time the brief was filed, with whom Robert J. Spagnoletti, Attorney General, and Edward E. Schwab, Deputy Attorney General, were on the brief, for appellee.

Deborah M. Golden for D.C. Prisoners' Legal Services Project, D.C. Cure, and Our Place, D.C., amici curiae in support of appellant.

Before WASHINGTON, Chief Judge, RUIZ, Associate Judge, and KERN, Senior Judge.


RUIZ, Associate Judge:

This case arises out of appellant's claim that prison guards assaulted him while he was a prisoner in District of Columbia jail (D.C. jail). It requires us to parse the Inmate Grievance Procedure (IGP) of the District of Columbia Department of Corrections (DOC) and to do so in light of the requirement of the Prison Litigation Reform Act that administrative remedies be exhausted before a court action can be instituted claiming a violation of...

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