ARKANSAS SUPREME COURT

NOT DESIGNATED FOR PUBLICATION

PER CURIAM

MARCH 22, 2001

ELIZABETH GAMMON BROWN

Appellant

v.

RITA MAXWELL, WARDEN

Appellee

00-753

PRO SE MOTION FOR EXTENSION OF TIME TO FILE APPELLANT'S REPLY BRIEF AND FOR OTHER RELIEF [CIRCUIT COURT OF JACKSON COUNTY, NO. CIV 00-45, HON. HAROLD ERWIN, JUDGE]

MOTION GRANTED IN PART AND DENIED IN PART

Elizabeth Gammon Brown, an inmate in the custody of the Arkansas Department of Correction, has lodged an appeal in this court from an order of the Circuit Court of Jackson County. The order denied with prejudice a pro se petition for judgment pursuant to the Arkansas Administrative Procedures Act filed by Brown naming the warden where she is incarcerated as defendant. Appellant Brown, who is proceeding pro se, sought and was granted an extension of time to file the appellant's brief. Brown v. Maxwell, 00-753 (December 7, 2000).

Appellant now requests an extension of time to file her reply brief. Appellant further asks this court to issue an order directing the appellee and any other person from depriving her of access to the prison library and its services and her legal files.

We grant appellant an extension of fourteen days from the date of this opinion to submit the reply brief but deny the request for an order pertaining to access to the library and her files. We have consistently declined to dictate the operation of the Arkansas Department ofCorrection. Martin v. State, 340 Ark. 719, 13 S.W.3d 576 (2000). If an appellant has been denied some legally protected right by virtue of the conduct of the officials at his or her place of incarceration, the appellant may proceed in the appropriate court with an action against those officials.

Motion granted in part and denied in part.