Kyle

I. BACKGROUND

22 A. Plaintiff’s Claims 23 Plaintiff filed the complaint commencing this action on April 9, 2019. (ECF No. 1.) The 24 complaint alleged, in relevant part, that Plaintiff reported having suicidal thoughts while housed in the Short Term Restricted Housing unit (“STRH”) at California State Prison—Corcoran (“CSP—Corcoran”) because the windowless cells in STRH lack natural light, but Defendant Kyle nonetheless issued a chrono in September of 2016 indicating that he could be placed in STRH. (Id. at 11.) Plaintiff also alleges that Defendants were involved in a decision to place him in the Indecent Exposure Pilot Program (“IEX Program”), which mixed protective and non-protective

custody inmates, despite knowing that if Plaintiff “programmed peacefully with the protective

custody inmates in IEX that he would be subject to attack by other non-protective custody

inmates when released back to general population.” (Id. at 19.) Plaintiff alleges that he had physical altercations with protective custody inmates while in the IEX Program. (Id. at 19-20.) 5 On May 28, 2019, the Court entered an order screening Plaintiff’s complaint. (ECF…