Mack

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MAJOR MACK,

Case No. 22-cv-00775-YGR (PR) Plaintiff, ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE v. 9 SAN MATEO COUNTY, et al., 10 Defendants.

Plaintiff, an inmate at Maguire Correctional Facility, has filed a pro se complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. He also seeks leave to proceed in forma pauperis under 28 U.S.C. § 1915. A review of the complaint reveals that plaintiff has not exhausted California’s prison administrative process, however. The Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (“PLRA”) amended 42 U.S.C. § 1997e to provide that “[n]o action shall be brought with respect to prison conditions under [42 U.S.C. § 1983], or any other Federal law, by a prisoner confined in any jail, prison, or other correctional facility until such administrative remedies as are available are exhausted.” 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a). Exhaustion is mandatory and no longer left to the discretion of the district court. Ross v. Blake, 136 S. Ct. 1850, 1856-58 (2016); Woodford v.…