Minnesota inmate Ronaldo Ligons appeals from the district court’s 1 adverse *627 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 available to him. We also conclude that the district court did not abuse its discretion in implicitly denying Ligons leave to amend his complaint, because the amendment would not have cured the deficiency for which the complaint was dismissed.

Accordingly, we affirm and deny Ligons’s pending motions on appeal. See 8th Cir. R. 47B. Ligons may refile his suit after he has exhausted the appropriate internal procedures available to him. See Lyon v. Vande Krol, 270 F.3d 563, 566 (8th Cir. 2001).

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