Jones

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 HENRY A. JONES, JR., Case No. 21cv162-MMA (RBM)

Plaintiff,

ORDER SCREENING COMPLAINT

v. PURSUANT TO 28 U.S.C. § 1915A;

MARCUS POLLARD, Warden, et al.,

DISMISSING JOHN DOE

Defendants. DEFENDANTS; AND

DIRECTING CLERK OF COURT TO

ISSUE A SUMMONS PURSUANT TO Fed. R. Civ. P. 4(b) 18 19 I. Procedural History On January 27, 2021, Henry A. Jones, Jr. (“Plaintiff”), a state prisoner incarcerated at the R. J. Donovan Correctional Facility (“RJD), in San Diego, California, proceeding pro se, filed a civil rights complaint pursuant 42 U.S.C. § 1983 along with a motion to proceed in forma pauperis. See Doc. Nos. 1-2. In the Complaint, Plaintiff claims Defendants were deliberately indifferent to his health and safety in violation of the Eighth Amendment based on their decision to use the mental health building at RJD, where Plaintiff is housed, to quarantine…