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Timestamp: 2019-04-25 18:22:50+00:00

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BOARD OF SEDGWICK COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, et al., Defendants.
Plaintiff Anthony Earl Ridley brings this pro se civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Although Plaintiff was incarcerated at the Lansing Correctional Facility at the time of filing, the acts giving rise to his Complaint occurred while he was in custody at the Sedgwick County Detention Facility. The Court granted his motion to proceed in forma pauperis. For the reasons discussed below, Plaintiff is ordered to show cause why his Complaint should not be dismissed.
Plaintiff describes his attempts to seek administrative relief as: “Sheriff's General Orders nothing was done to correct the problems. I also sent a formal grievance letter to Governor Sam Brownback.” (Doc. 1, at 30.) Having considered Plaintiff's allegations, the Court finds the Complaint is subject to dismissal because Plaintiff acknowledges that he has not exhausted administrative remedies on his claims. Under 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a), “a prisoner must exhaust his administrative remedies prior to filing a lawsuit regarding prison conditions in federal court.” Id. This exhaustion requirement “is mandatory, and the district court [is] not authorized to dispense with it.” Beaudry v. Corrections Corp. of Am., 331 F.3d 1164, 1167 n. 5 (10th Cir. 2003), cert. denied, 540 U.S. 1118 (2004); Little v. Jones, 607 F.3d 1245, 1249 (10th Cir. 2010). An “inmate who begins the grievance process but does not complete it is barred from pursuing a § 1983 claim under the PLRA for failure to exhaust his administrative remedies.” Jernigan v. Stuchell, 304 F.3d 1030, 1032 (10th Cir. 2002).

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