MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

NANCY J. ROSENSTENGEL, District Judge.

This matter is before the Court on the Report and Recommendation of United States Magistrate Judge Donald G. Wilkerson (Doc. 48), recommending that Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment on the Issue of Exhaustion (Doc. 41) be denied.

Plaintiff Maeceo Dickey, an inmate in the Illinois Department of Corrections, filed this lawsuit on September 19, 2014, against various prison officials at Menard Correctional Center. A number of his claims have been dismissed (Docs. 8, 31), and this matter is currently proceeding on the following counts:

Defendants Richard Harrington, David Ealey, Nicholas Bebout, and Rebecca Stefani moved for summary judgment arguing that Dickey failed to exhaust his administrative remedies as required by the Prison Litigation Reform Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1997(e) (Doc. 41). Dickey filed a response in opposition to the motion for summary judgment (Doc. 44). On March 5, 2015, Magistrate Judge Wilkerson held an evidentiary hearing on the issue of exhaustion as outlined in Pavey v. Conley, 544 F.3d 739 (7th Cir. 2008). The following day, Magistrate Judge Wilkerson issued the Report and Recommendation currently before the Court (Doc. 48). Objections to the Report and Recommendation were due on or before March 23, 2015. See 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1); FED. R. CIV. P. 72(b)(2); SDIL-LR 73.1(b). Neither party filed an objection.

Where timely objections are filed, this Court must undertake a de novo review of the Report and Recommendation. 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(B), (C); Fed. R. Civ. P. 72(b); SDIL-LR 73.1(b); Harper v. City of Chicago Heights, 824 F.Supp. 786, 788 (N.D. Ill. 1993); see also Govas v. Chalmers, 965 F.2d 298, 301 (7th Cir. 1992). Where neither timely nor specific objections to the Report and Recommendation are made, however, this Court need not conduct a de novo review of the Report and Recommendation. See Thomas v. Arn, 474 U.S. 140 (1985). Instead, the Court should review the Report and Recommendation for clear error. Johnson v. Zema Systems Corp., 170 F.3d 734, 739 (7th Cir. 1999). The judge may then "accept, reject, or modify, in whole or in part, the findings or recommendations made by the magistrate judge." 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1).

The Court has carefully reviewed the briefs and exhibits submitted by the parties, as well as Magistrate Judge Wilkerson's Report and Recommendation. Following this review, the Court fully agrees with the findings, analysis, and conclusions of Magistrate Judge Wilkerson and adopts the Report and Recommendation in its entirety.

Dickey submitted an emergency grievance on October 30, 2013, complaining about all of the events at issue. The warden determined that the grievance was not an emergency and returned it to Dickey on November 4, 2013. Under the Illinois Administrative Code, Dickey had thirty days to appeal to the Administrative Review Board ("ARB"). ILL. ADMIN. CODE tit. 20, § 504.850(a). But Dickey was unable to mail his appeal to the ARB until early December because he was transferred to Pontiac Correctional Center on November 21, 2013, and he did not receive his property—including his pens and stamps needed to mail his appeal—until a few weeks later. The ARB received Dickey's appeal on December 20, 2013, and rejected it for being submitted outside the timeframe. Nevertheless, Dickey is deemed to have exhausted his administrative remedies because the grievance process was rendered unavailable during his transfer to Pontiac when he did not have access to his property and therefore did not have the means to mail his appeal to the ARB.

For this reason, the Court ADOPTS Magistrate Judge Wilkerson's Report and Recommendation (Doc. 48), and DENIES Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgment on the Issue of Exhaustion (Doc. 41).

IT IS SO ORDERED.