Opinion ID: 161259
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Heading: The Exhaustion of Administrative Remedies Requirement

Text: 32 Next, Mr. Yousef contends that pursuant to our holding in Garrett, 127 F.3d at 1267, he is not required to exhaust any administrative remedies before seeking relief in federal court. We stated in Garrett that a prisoner can only exhaust administrative remedies that are actually available. Id. We further concluded that, as to claims for monetary relief, there were no administrative remedies for the plaintiff prisoner to exhaust under the PLRA. Mr. Yousef maintains that, because the BOP is powerless to address his complaints, there are no available remedies for him to exhaust. 33 The Supreme Court's holding in Booth forecloses Mr. Yousef's argument. In Booth, the Court concluded that 1997e(a) mandates exhaustion regardless of the relief offered through administrative procedures. Booth, U.S., at, 121 S.Ct. 1819, 1824, 149 L.Ed.2d 958. Furthermore, the Court rejected Mr. Yousef's suggestion that a futility exception should relieve him of the need to apply to an agency that allegedly has no power to decree relief: we stress the point . . . that we will not read futility or other exceptions into statutory exhaustion requirements where Congress has provided otherwise. Id. at 1824 n.6. 34