COCHRAN v. Thomason, First Name Unknown; et al., Defendants. (2020)

MEMORANDUM **

Arizona state prisoner Howard Cochran appeals pro se from the district court's judgment dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action alleging an Eighth Amendment violation stemming from alleged prison overcrowding. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We review de novo a dismissal under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B)(ii). Resnick v. Hayes, 213 F.3d 443, 447 (9th Cir. 2000). We affirm.

The district court properly dismissed Cochran's action because Cochran failed to allege facts specific to defendant Ryan sufficient to show that defendant Ryan was deliberately indifferent to a substantial risk of serious harm to Cochran due to the alleged conditions of overcrowding. See Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 834, 114 S.Ct. 1970, 128 L.Ed.2d 811 (1994) (“[A] prison official may be held liable under the Eighth Amendment for denying humane conditions of confinement only if he knows that inmates face a substantial risk of serious harm and disregards that risk by failing to take reasonable measures to abate it.”); see also Balla v. Idaho State Bd. of Corr., 869 F.2d 461, 471 (9th Cir. 1989) (overcrowding has no constitutional significance standing alone).

AFFIRMED.