Pratt

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 RYANT TRIMALE PRATT, Case No. 21-cv-09943-JSW

Plaintiff,

ORDER OF DISMISSAL

v.

CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION & REHABILITATION, et al., Defendants. 12 Plaintiff, a California prisoner proceeding pro se, has filed a civil rights complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 seeking immediate release from custody on parole. He is serving a sentence of ninety years to life in state prison. “‘Federal law opens two main avenues to relief on complaints related to imprisonment: a petition for habeas corpus, 28 U.S.C. § 2254, and a complaint under the Civil Rights Act of 1871, Rev. Stat. § 1979, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Challenges to the lawfulness of confinement or to particulars affecting its duration are the province of habeas corpus.’” Hill v. McDonough, 547 U.S. 573, 579 (2006) (quoting Muhammad v. Close, 540 U.S. 749, 750 (2004)). “An inmate’s challenge to the circumstances of his confinement, however, may be brought under § 1983.” Id. Habeas is the “exclusive…