Rhone v. Ward

| JAN W. CLAIBORNE, Judge Pro Tem.

This appeal arises from the district court’s dismissal of a prisoner’s petition for judicial review of an Administrative Remedy Procedure (ARP), relative to damages for alleged mental anguish and physical suffering caused by contact with contaminated water at David Wade Correctional Center (DWCC). For the following reasons, we reverse and remand.

FACTS

Plaintiff, Alfonso Rhone, is an inmate at DWCC in Homer, Louisiana. He alleges in his petition for judicial review that on July 10, 1998, he was notified that he had been exposed to baeteria-eontaminated water…