E-Yáge Bowens, a pretrial detainee, appeals the district court’s sua sponte dismissal with prejudice (Doc. 9) of Bowens’s 42 U.S.C. § 1983 complaint for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. The “shotgun” complaint claims that various mail-screening policies of the Defendants violate Bowens’s First Amendment rights. In particular, he seeks permission to receive sexually explicit materials that he contends are necessary to defend multiple sex-crime charges pending against him. These materials are banned by the prison where Bowens is incarcerated. The district court dismissed the complaint with prejudice. We vacate and remand for further proceedings.

We review de novo a district court’s sua sponte dismissal of a complaint under 28 U.S.C. § 1915(e)(2)(B)(ii) for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. A “shotgun” pleading like Bowens’s in this case does not comply with Rule 12(b)(6)’s pleading requirements. See Anderson v. Dist. Bd. of Trs. of Cent. Fla. Cmty. Coll., 77 F.3d 364, 366-67 (11th Cir. 1996).

The district court did not err in concluding that Bowens failed to state a claim upon which relief could be granted.- The complaint contains a number of factual allegations and identifies a number of jailers and other prison officials, but it does not correlate any of the facts to any of the Defendants. His complaint does not allege any of the elements of a claim necessary to prove the unreasonableness of prison regulations insofar as the regulations allegedly infringe upon constitutional rights. See Turner v. Safley, 482 U.S. 78, 107 S.Ct. 2254, 96 L.Ed.2d 64 (1987). 1

While the district court did not err in concluding that Bowens’s complaint fails to state a claim upon which relief can be granted, it did err in not giving Bowens an opportunity to amend his complaint. Bank v. Pitt, 928 F.2d 1108, 1112 (11th Cir. 1991), overruled in part, Wagner v. Daewoo Heavy Indus. Am. Corp., 314 F.3d 541, 542 (11th Cir. 2002) (en banc). Under Bank, a pro se litigant must be given at least one opportunity to amend his complaint if it appears that a more carefully drafted pleading would state a claim upon which relief could be granted. Bank, 928 F.2d at 1112. Bowens’s is such a complaint. Bowens should have been allowed an opportunity to amend his complaint.

We vacate the district court’s judgment of dismissal and remand for proceedings consistent with this opinion.

VACATED AND REMANDED.