MEMORANDUM **

Federal prisoner Wilson Thomas appeals pro se from the district court’s judgment dismissing his 28 U.S.C. § 2241 habeas petition. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 2253, and we affirm.

Thomas contends that the district court erred in dismissing his petition on the basis of his previous § 2241 petition, which was dismissed with prejudice. 1 The instant petition, like Thomas’s previous petition, asserts that the Bureau of Prisons wrongly denied him credit for time served on his state sentence.

The abuse of the writ doctrine generally “forbids the reconsideration of claims that were or could have been raised in a prior habeas petition.” Calderon v. United States Dist. Ct. (Kelly), 163 F.3d 530, 538 (9th Cir. 1998) (en banc), overruled on other grounds by Woodford v. Garceau, 538 U.S. 202, 123 S.Ct. 1398, 155 L.Ed.2d 363 (2003). Thomas has not shown cause for bringing a successive petition, or that a fundamental miscarriage of justice will result from the failure to entertain his claim. See McCleskey v. Zant, 499 U.S. 467, 494-95, 111 S.Ct. 1454, 113 L.Ed.2d 517 (1991). Thus, his petition was properly dismissed.

AFFIRMED.