Bernard v. Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections

| JARRO, J.

Reginald Bernard, an inmate in the custody of the Louisiana Department of Pub-*471lie Safety and Corrections, appeals a judgment of the district court dismissing his petition for writ of habeas corpus. Finding merit in Bernard’s assignment of error that the district court erred in screening his habeas corpus application under the provisions of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA), Louisiana Revised Statutes 15:1181-90, we reverse and remand.

In his petition, Bernard claimed that, although his confinement was originally lawful, because of an intervening series of events and the…