United States Court of Appeals
                           FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT
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                                    No. 00-3004
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Doyle Garland Gill,                      *
                                         *
             Appellant,                  *
                                         * Appeal from the United States
      v.                                 * District Court for the
                                         * Eastern District of Arkansas.
Doyle Herndon; Charles Burton,           *
                                         *      [UNPUBLISHED]
             Appellees.                  *
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                          Submitted: May 2, 2001
                              Filed: May 8, 2001
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Before BOWMAN, BEAM, and LOKEN, Circuit Judges.
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PER CURIAM.

       Doyle Garland Gill appeals the District Court’s1 dismissal of his 42 U.S.C.
§ 1983 action for failure to exhaust administrative remedies under 42 U.S.C. § 1997e(a)
(Supp. IV 1998). Having reviewed the record and the parties’ briefs de novo, see
Miller v. Menghini, 

, 1246 (10th Cir. 2000) (standard of review), we
affirm.



      1
        The Honorable J. Thomas Ray, United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern
District of Arkansas, to whom the case was referred for final disposition by consent of
the parties pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(c).
       Gill failed to attach to his complaint any proof of administrative exhaustion. In
fact, Gill did not even attach proof of his initial grievances that were embodied in
administrative records. Cf. McAlphin v. Morgan, 

, 682 (8th Cir. 2000)
(per curiam) (to satisfy § 1997e(a)’s requirements, inmate must allege exhaustion of
available administrative remedies and should attach administrative decision, if it is
available, showing disposition of his complaint). In response to the defendants’
motions to dismiss, Gill filed only the first step of a grievance wherein he made
allegations different from those in his complaint, against a sergeant not named as a
defendant. See Chelette v. Harris, 

, 688 (8th Cir. 2000) (holding that a
district court, acting on a motion to dismiss, was obligated to make findings of fact on
question of exhaustion by considering affidavit submitted by defendants as well as
inmate’s response to dismissal motion), cert. denied, 

(2001).

      Accordingly, we affirm, see 8th Cir. R. 47B, and we clarify that the dismissal
was without prejudice, see 

. We deny Gill’s pending
motion.

      A true copy.

             Attest:

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




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