Perez

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

RAYMOND JONES, Case No. 1:19-cv-01553-JLT (PC)

Plaintiff, ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE WHY ACTION

SHOULD NOT BE DISMISSED FOR FAILURE

v. TO EXHAUST ADMINISTRATIVE REMEDIES

PEREZ, et al., (Doc. 1)

Defendants. 21-DAY DEADLINE 16 Plaintiff Raymond Jones, a state prisoner, filed this civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. section 1983. The Prison Litigation Reform Act provides that “[n]o action shall be brought with respect to prison conditions under section 1983 …, or any other Federal law, by a prisoner confined in any jail, prison, or other correctional facility until such administrative remedies as are available are exhausted.” 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a). Prisoners are required to exhaust available administrative remedies prior to filing suit, Jones v. Bock, 549 U.S. 199, 211 (2007) (citation omitted), and courts must dismiss an action where the prisoner has failed to exhaust. McKinney v. Carey, 311 F.3d 1198, 1199-1201…