Saradeth

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 DARIAN MANUEL POWELL, No. 2:23-cv-00946-DAD-EFB (PC) Plaintiff, v. ORDER SARADETH, et al., Defendants. 16 Plaintiff is a state prisoner proceeding without counsel in an action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. In a complaint dated April 17, 2023, plaintiff alleges that on January 30, 2023, an unidentified official at the California Health Care Facility raped him, repeatedly punched him in the solar plex, and attempted to murder him by preventing him from breathing. ECF No. 1 at 4. Plaintiff claims he was then forcibly medicated in an effort to stop him from telling “about rapes and wrongs done by Mule Creek, Salinas Valley Prisons, Vacaville, Solano, and Stockton Facilities.” Id. For the reasons stated below, plaintiff will be required to show cause why this case should not be dismissed, without prejudice, for failure to exhaust administrative remedies prior to filing suit. Because plaintiff is a prisoner suing over…