United States Fifth Circuit

An appeal from dismissal of plaintiff's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 and 1985 action on the basis that he is a prisoner who has accumulated three strikes under the Prisoner Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) is dismissed where plaintiff, who resides at a privately operated halfway house, is "detained in any facility" for a criminal conviction, and consequently is a "prisoner" for purposes of the PLRA's three strikes provision.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/03/2007
• Published 01/04/2007

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before KING, HIGGINBOTHAM and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Joseph Eugene Jackson, Fort Worth, TX, pro se., Marjolyn Carol Gardner, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, TX, for State of Texas.