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Case: 12-11592   Date Filed: 01/22/2013   Page: 1 of 2

                                                            [DO NOT PUBLISH]

               IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

                       FOR THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT
                      _____________________________

                               No. 12-11592
                           Non-Argument Calendar
                      _____________________________

                   D. C. Docket No. 1:12-cv-00216-IPJ-RRA

TERRY DONNELL WATSON,

                                                               Plaintiff-Appellant,

     versus

WARDEN,
STATE OF ALABAMA,
ATTORNEY GENERAL, STATE OF ALABAMA,
COMMISSIONER, ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS,
RONALD CAVANAUGH, Medical Review Officer, individually and
in his official capacity acting “under color of state law,” et al.,

                                                           Defendants-Appellees.

               _________________________________________

                  Appeal from the United States District Court
                     for the Northern District of Alabama
               _________________________________________

                               (January 22, 2013)
              Case: 12-11592     Date Filed: 01/22/2013   Page: 2 of 2

Before MARCUS, KRAVITCH, and EDMONDSON, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

      Terry Watson, an inmate at the Childersburg Community Work Center in

Alabama, appeals pro se the district court’s denial of his request for a preliminary

injunction to enjoin the current procedures and practices for inmate drug testing

conducted by the Alabama Department of Corrections (“DOC”) and the

implementation of DOC Administrative Regulation #440 (“AR 440"). The district

court did not abuse its discretion in denying the injunction. For background, see

Wolff v. McDonnell, 418 U.S. 539, 94 S. Ct. 2963, 2982-83, 41 L.Ed 2d 935

(1974). The public’s interest in the administration of a safe prison system, free of

drugs, is great. Besides, Watson failed to show that he would suffer an imminent,

irreparable injury (one not compensable through monetary damages) in the

absence of a preliminary injunction.

      AFFIRMED.

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