ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:
Because the decision in this Bivens-type suit by a prisoner against federal prison officials for an isolated constitutional tort may affect the fact or duration of the prisoner's confinement, we hold that the action cannot proceed, even as to claims for damages, until the prisoner exhausts the remedy available by habeas corpus proceedings.
Alan James Spina, an inmate incarcerated in the Western District of Texas, filed...
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