Review the excerpt from the U.S. Supreme Court case Woodford v. Ngo and, using the materials from Chapter 43, answer the following questions.
1. What is the exhaustion doctrine and how was that doctrine at issue in the Woodford v. Ngo case?
2. According to the Supreme Court, what two public policy purposes are served by the exhaustion doctrine? Explain fully (don't just list the two purposes).
3. According to the Supreme Court, how were these two public policy purposes served by requiring prisoners like Ngo to exhaust their remedies?