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Timestamp: 2017-06-29 05:44:25
Document Index: 71200688

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 1915', '§ 1915', '§ 1983', '§ 4', '§ 6', '§ 7']

| Jackson v. Camden County Correctional Facility
SERVINE JACKSON, Plaintiff,v.CAMDEN COUNTY CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, et al., Defendants.
SERVINE JACKSON, Plaintiff pro se, #769422, South Woods State Prison, Bridgeton, New Jersey.
Plaintiff, Servine Jackson, a state inmate confined at the South Woods State Prison in Bridgeton, New Jersey, at the time he filed this Complaint, seeks to bring this action in forma pauperis. Based on his affidavit of indigence, the Court will grant plaintiff's application to proceed in forma pauperis ("IFP") pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1915(a) (1998) and order the Clerk of the Court to file the Complaint.
At this time, the Court must review the Complaint, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §§ 1915(e)(2)(B) and 1915A, to determine whether it should be dismissed as frivolous or malicious, for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted, or because it seeks monetary relief from a defendant who is immune from such relief. For the reasons set forth below, the Court concludes that the Complaint should be dismissed at this time.
Plaintiff, Servine Jackson ("Plaintiff"), brings this civil action, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, against the following defendants, the Camden County Correctional Facility ("CCCF"); the Freeholders of Camden County; and the CCCF Medical Provider. (Complaint, Caption, §§ 4b, 4c and 6.) The following factual allegations are taken from the Complaint, and are accepted for purposes of this screening only. The Court has made no findings as to the veracity of Plaintiff's allegations.
Plaintiff alleges that, on or about December 15, 2011, while he was confined at the CCCF, he was given a tuberculosis ("TB") test, which showed Plaintiff was positive for TB. Consequently, Plaintiff was given medication for treatment of the TB that caused liver problems, so the treatment was discontinued. Thereafter, in May 2012, after Plaintiff was transferred to the Central Reception and Assignment Facility ("CRAF"), he was re-tested for TB and the results showed negative. Plaintiff concludes that he never had TB and thus sues for "misdiagnosis." (Compl., § 6.) Plaintiff seeks $1 million in damages. (Compl., § 7.)
This inquiry is "normally broken into three parts: (1) identifying the elements of the claim, (2) reviewing the complaint to strike conclusory allegations, and then (3) looking at the well-pleaded components of the complaint and evaluating whether all of the elements identified in part one of the inquiry are sufficiently alleged." Malleus v. George, 641 F.3d 560, 563 (3d Cir. 2011). In determining the sufficiency of a pro se complaint, however, the Court must be mindful to construe it liberally in favor of the plaintiff. See Erickson v. Pardus, 551 U.S. 89, 93-94 (2007); see also United States v. Day, 969 F.2d 39, 42 (3d Cir. 1992).