Long

MEMORANDUM *

The district court granted summary judgment, reasoning that Harry Long had failed to exhaust his administrative remedies as required by the Prison Litigation Reform Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1997e.

Long’s “substantial compliance” argument fails because he did not properly *884 complete the steps for administrative review. Long asserts that after his initial appeal he filed other grievances. These grievances, however, are only tangentially related to his grievance regarding the shooting! Long offers no sufficient explanation as to why he failed to follow the administrative procedures after he learned in November 1997 that the two CDC investigations into the shooting were completed.

Long essentially asks us to read a new exception into the PLRA: that when the final decision maker reviews an investigation pertaining to the subject matter of the grievance, it excuses the inmate’s failure to appeal the prison’s response to that grievance. This 'we may not do. Booth v. Chumer, 532 U.S. 731 , 741 n. 6, 121 S.Ct. 1819 , 149 L.Ed.2d 958 (2001).

At a minimum, Long should have administratively appealed once he had notice on November 30, 1997, that the shooting complied with CDC…