Smith v. Cowman

ORDER AND JUDGMENT*

MICHAEL W. McCONNELL, Circuit Judge.

Benny R. Smith, a Kansas state prisoner, brought a number of complaints under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 concerning the condition of his confinement. On March 1, 2006, the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas ruled that he had not demonstrated an exhaustion of administrative remedies, as required by 42 U.S.C. § 1997e, and gave him sixteen days to do so. Mr. Smith filed an interlocutory appeal, which this court dismissed for lack of jurisdiction on June 8. On June 13, the district court, noting that the defendant had still provided no…