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Nature of Suit Code: 550
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Civil Rights (U.S. defendant)
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 

CHARLES D. VILLACRES, 

Plaintiff, 

v. 

CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF 

CORRECTIONS, et al., 

Defendants. 

No. 2:16-cv-0305 AC P 

ORDER 

 By order filed April 5, 2016, the court clarified for plaintiff that it did not require a 

certificate showing his trust account balance. ECF No. 8. What the court requires is plaintiff’s 

certified trust account statement. Id. Plaintiff has filed a response to that order in which he states 

that he will have another certificate form filled out and mailed to the court. ECF No. 9. 

The court again advises plaintiff that he does not need to mail another certificate. The 

court has already received his certificate which states what the current balance is and what the 

average balance and deposits have been for the past six months. Plaintiff needs to send a copy of 

his trust account statement that has been certified by prison staff. The trust account statement is 

the record of all the deposits to and withdrawals from plaintiff’s prison trust account, and is 

similar to the kind of statement one would get from a bank. It is sometimes called an inmate 

statement report. The statement must be certified by prison staff, which means that an employee 

of the prison must sign the statement and verify that it is a correct copy of the record kept by the 

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prison. If plaintiff is unclear what he needs to send the court, he should show this order to his 

counselor or other appropriate prison staff. 

 Accordingly, IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that plaintiff shall submit, within thirty days 

from the date of this order, a certified copy of his trust account statement (inmate statement 

report) showing the deposits to and withdrawals from his account for the six month period 

immediately preceding the filing of the complaint. Plaintiff’s failure to comply with this order 

will result in a recommendation that this action be dismissed without prejudice. 

DATED: April 15, 2016 

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