David Allen Mann v. James Adams, and Bruce Babbitt, Governor of Arizona

Mann, an inmate at Arizona State Prison, appeals pro se the district court’s grant of summary judgment to the state officers in this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action. We affirm.

Mann’s claims are based upon allegations that grievances at Arizona State Prison are generally handled in an untimely and inefficient manner without a procedure certified pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1997e; that letters to him from various public officials, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the news media were opened outside his presence; that the prison has no procedure for providing receipts for certified mail; and that…