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Shirley Ann CHARLES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Sylvia NANCE, Warden; Linda Mayberry; Lawrence Siggers; Audrey Lynn Smith; Kay Sheeley, Defendants-Appellees.
    No. 05-51136.
    Conference Calendar.
    United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
    Decided June 21, 2006.
    Shirley A. Charles, Gatesville, TX, pro se.
    
      Before STEWART, DENNIS, and OWEN, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM:

Shirley Ann Charles, Texas prisoner # 692618, appeals the district court’s dismissal of her 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint as frivolous and for failure to state a claim pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(e) and 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e). We review a dismissal as frivolous for abuse of discretion and for failure to state a claim de novo. See Berry v. Brady, 192 F.3d 504, 507 (5th Cir.1999); Bazrowx v. Scott, 136 F.3d 1053, 1054 (5th Cir.1998).

As the district court correctly determined, a prisoner may not maintain an action for monetary damages against state officials based on an alleged constitutional violation absent some showing of a physical injury. § 1997e(e); see also Geiger v. Jowers, 404 F.3d 371, 374 (5th Cir.2005). Moreover, prisoners have no absolute constitutional right of visitation. See Berry, 192 F.3d at 508. The denial of a single visit does not give rise to a constitutional violation. See id. The alleged violation of the prison’s visitation policy likewise provides no basis for a constitutional claim. See Edwards v. Johnson, 209 F.3d 772, 779 (5th Cir.2000). Charles’s complaint that the prison failed to investigate her grievance arising out of the denial of visitation likewise fails to assert a due process violation. See Geiger, 404 F.3d at 373-74. Thus, we need not reach the district court’s conclusion that Charles failed to exhaust administrative remedies with respect to this claim.

Charles’s argument that the district court should have allowed her to amend her complaint is without merit. In light of the foregoing, there are no facts alleged by Charles in seeking leave to amend or that could have been alleged that would have entitled her to relief. See Jacquez v. Procunier, 801 F.2d 789, 793 (5th Cir.1986).

For the foregoing reasons, we dismiss this appeal as frivolous. See 5th Cir. R. 42.2; Howard v. King, 707 F.2d 215, 219-20 (5th Cir.1983). The dismissal by the district court of Charles’s suit and the dismissal of this appeal as frivolous count as two strikes under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g). See Adepegba v. Hammons, 103 F.3d 383, 387-88 (5th Cir.1996). Charles previously received a strike when another § 1983 suit was dismissed for failure to state a claim. See Charles v. Woody, 180 Fed.Appx. 533, 534 (5th Cir.2006) (unpublished). As Charles now has accumulated at least three strikes under § 1915(g), she is barred from proceeding in forma pauperis in any civil action or appeal filed while she is incarcerated or detained in any facility unless she is under imminent danger of serious physical injury. § 1915(g).

DISMISSED AS FRIVOLOUS; 28 U.S.C. § 1915(g) BAR IMPOSED. 
      
       Pursuant to 5th Cir. R. 47.5, the court has determined that this opinion should not be published and is not precedent except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4.