Reform Act’s (“PLRA”) exhaustion requirement has clearly been expressed by Congress. It provides that [n]o action shall be brought, with respect to prison conditions under § 1983 of this title, or any other Federal law, by a prisoner confined in any jail, prison, or other correctional facility until such administrative remedies as are available are exhausted. 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a) (2006). The Supreme Court has emphasized that “exhaustion is now required for all actions brought with respect to prison conditions, whether under [42 U.S.C.] § 1983 or any other Federal law.” Porter v. Nussle, 534 U.S. 516, 524, 122 S.Ct. 983, 152 L.Ed.2d 12 (2002) (internal quotation marks and alterations omitted); see also Booth v. Churner, 532 U.S. 731, 741, 121 S.Ct. 1819, 149 L.Ed.2d 958 (2001) (<HOLDING>). As with the FOIA, this exhaustion requirement
holding that exhaustion is not required for plaintiffs seeking money damages because damages are unavailable through the administrative process and because all other relief available to the plaintiffs under the idea had already been provided through a settlement agreement holding exhaustion is required regardless of the relief offered through administrative procedures holding that by its terms the idea does not require exhaustion where the relief sought is unavailable in an administrative proceeding under the idea monetary damages are not available so exhaustion is not required holding that exhaustion is required even where the relief sought is not available in the administrative process holding that exhaustion is required under the plra even if the plaintiff seeks only money damages and money damages are not available as relief