(PC) Adams v. California Department of Corrections

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 9 RONALD LEE ADAMS, No. 2:20-cv-0858 JAM DB P Plaintiff, v. FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, et al., 14 Defendants. 15 Plaintiff, a state prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed a civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff claims that he has been denied contact visits with his niece and nephew because of a classification error in violation of his Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Presently before the court is plaintiff’s complaint for screening. For the reasons set forth below, the court will recommend that the complaint be dismissed without leave to amend. BACKGROUND Plaintiff initiated this action by filing the complaint and requesting to proceed in forma pauperis in April 2020. (ECF Nos. 1, 5.) The undersigned found that plaintiff had accrued three strikes under 28 U.S.C. § 19195(g) prior to filing this action and recommended that plaintiff’s request…