Ronaldo S. Ligons v. Mark Kroll

Minnesota inmate Ronaldo Ligons appeals from the district court’s 1 adverse grant of summary judgment in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action. As relevant to this appeal, Kroll alleged that prison officials destroyed or withheld books sent to him from outside sources, in violation of his First Amendment rights. The district court dismissed the case without prejudice because Ligons had failed to exhaust his administrative remedies. Upon de novo review, see Larson v. City of Fergus Falls, 229 F.3d 692, 696 (8th Cir.2000), we agree with the court that Ligons did not show he had exhausted the remedies…