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Nature of Suit Code: 555
Nature of Suit: Prisoner - Prison Condition
Cause of Action: 42:1983 Prisoner Civil Rights

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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 

EASTERN DISTRICT OF ARKANSAS 

JONESBORO DIVISION 

DEMETRIUS DIXION 

ADC #144746 PLAINTIFF 

v. No. 3:14-cv-301-DPM-JTR 

MIKE ALLEN, Sheriff, Crittenden County 

Detention Center; ROBERT COLEMAN, 

Administrator, Crittenden County Detention 

Center; TERREA BOHNER, Chief Jailer, 

Crittenden County Detention Center; DAVIS, 

Officer, Crittenden County Detention Center; 

and MANDY CHILDRESS, Nurse, Crittenden 

County Detention Center 

ORDER 

DEFENDANTS 

1. Dixion has filed this pro se § 1983 action saying that defendants 

violated his constitutional rights while he was a pretrial detainee in the 

Crittenden County Detention Center. NQ 2 & 6. The Court must screen 

Dixion's complaint. 28 U.S.C. § 1915A. 

2. Dixion says that Coleman, Bohner, and Allen violated his due process 

rights by failing to respond to his grievances. Prisoners do not have a 

constitutional right to a grievance procedure. Lomholt v. Holder, 287 F.3d 683, 

684 (8th Cir. 2002) (per curiam). The failure-to-respond-to- grievances claims 

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are dismissed, and Coleman, Bohner, and Allen are dismissed without 

prejudice as defendants. 

3. Dixion has, however, pleaded plausible claims that Davis used 

excessive force against on 6 November 2014 and that Childress failed to 

provide him with adequate medical care for his injuries. 

The Clerk is directed to prepare a summons for Davis and Childress. 

The U.S. Marshal is directed to serve the summons, complaint, amended 

complaint and this Order on them without prepayment of fees and costs or 

security therefor. If either of the defendants is no longer a county employee, 

the individual responding to service must file the unserved defendant's last 

known private mailing address under seal. 

So Ordered. 

D.P. Marshall Jr. (/ 

United States District Judge 

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