United States Court of Appeals FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT ___________ No. 97-3635 ___________ Jesse Ellsworth Whitsel, * * Appellant, * * v. * Appeal from the United States * District Court for the Gerardo Acevedo, Ronald Welder, * Southern District of Iowa. Debbie Nichols, Jim Helling, John * Emmett, Charles Harper, Teresea T. * [UNPUBLISHED] Anderson, Sally Chandler Halford, * * Appellees. * ___________ Submitted: June 5, 1998 Filed: June 10, 1998 ___________ Before BOWMAN, Chief Judge, WOLLMAN, and MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judges. ___________ PER CURIAM.

Inmate Jesse Ellsworth Whitsel appeals from the district court&s1 grant of summary judgment to Iowa Department of Corrections officials in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983

The Honorable R. E. Longstaff, United States District Judge for the Southern District of Iowa. action. Having carefully reviewed the record, we affirm for the reasons set forth in the district court&s opinion. See 8th Cir. R. 47B.

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Attest: CLERK, U.S. COURT OF APPEALS, EIGHTH CIRCUIT.

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