Woods

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ROBERT WOODS, Case No. 19-cv-02470-EMC

Plaintiff,

ORDER OF SERVICE

v. Docket No. 1 G. MARQUEZ, et al., Defendants.

12 I. INTRODUCTION Robert Woods, a prisoner at the California State Prison - Corcoran, filed this pro se civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. His complaint is now before the court for review under 28 U.S.C. § 1915A. II. BACKGROUND The complaint alleges the following about events that occurred in May 2015 at Salinas Valley State Prison: Due to prison overcrowding, Salinas Valley officials were re-housing some inmates. Officials devised a scheme to house security threat group (STG) inmates with non-STG inmates in hopes that one of them would object and thereby earn a trip to administrative segregation. In April 2015, Mr. Woods was single-celled. In an effort to thwart any effort to house him in an unfavorable situation, he found a compatible…