Bennett

ORDER AND OPINION

ORDER

The order filed on March 7, 2000 is hereby withdrawn.

OPINION

Frederick Douglas Bennett appeals the dismissal of his civil rights complaint for failure to file an amended complaint alleging only claims for which he had exhausted available administrative remedies. We affirm the judgment of the district court entered pursuant to the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1996 (PLRA), 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a) (West Supp.2000).

PROCEEDINGS

Frederick Douglas Bennett is an inmate of the Pelican Bay State Prison of the State of California. According to the lengthy narrative that constitutes his complaint, Bennett for religious reasons wears dreadlocks. Dreadlocks are permitted by the prison. A corrections officer, however, contended that his hair was in braids, not dreadlocks, and ordered Bennett to un-braid his hair. When Bennett refused, a series of harassments by prison officers allegedly resulted. He was several times denied food. He was given torn bed sheets. His. legal papers were lost. His access to the law library was restricted. He was assaulted by officers intending to inflict pain on him as they removed him from his cell.

In 1995 Bennett began pro se a…