---
title: "Exhaustion of administrative remedies"
citation: "28 C.F.R. § 115.52"
authority_id: "AUTH-CFR-28-115-52"
authority_type: "regulation"
jurisdiction: "federal_nationwide"
precedential_status: "binding"
official_url: "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-28/chapter-I/part-115/subpart-A/section-115.52"
url: "https://jason93.com/legal/federal-process/authorities/AUTH-CFR-28-115-52/"
legal_review: "2026-08-25"
links_checked: "2026-10-15"
links_available: 1
links_checked_count: 1
license: "CC BY 4.0"
---

# Exhaustion of administrative remedies

## Holding or rule used

PREA-adjusted grievance timing, process, emergency response, and bad-faith discipline rules.

## Material limitation

Use only for the bounded proposition and limitations in the linked canonical modules. Individual custody, computation, program, placement, administrative, circuit, and remedy facts remain separate.

## Official source and pinpoints

28 C.F.R. § 115.52, § 115.52(a)–(g): <https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-28/chapter-I/part-115/subpart-A/section-115.52>


## Used in

- [BOP Administrative Remedies, § 2241 Review, APA Limits, and Mootness](https://jason93.com/legal/federal-process/modules/80-sentence-execution-and-bop/administrative-remedies-and-judicial-review.md)
