DEAN v. COUGHLIN

No. 113, Docket 86-2175.

804 F.2d 207 (1986)

Mary DEAN, Karen White, Winifred Mack and Elizabeth Taylor, for themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Thomas A. COUGHLIN III, Commissioner of the New York State Department of Correctional Services; Raymond Broaddus, Assistant Commissioner for Health Services of the New York State Department of Correctional Services; Sydney Pollard, Dental Director of New York State Department of Correctional Services; Elaine Lord, Superintendent of Bedford Hills Correctional Facility; Jimmie Harris, Health Administrator of Bedford Hills Correctional Facility and Donald Collings, Dentist at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, individually and in their official capacities, Defendants. Appeal of Thomas A. COUGHLIN III, Commissioner of the New York State Department of Correctional Services; Raymond Broaddus, Assistant Commissioner for Health Services of the New York State Department of Correctional Services; Elaine Lord, Superintendent of Bedford Hills Correctional Facility and Jimmie Harris, Health Administrator of Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided October 28, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frederic L. Lieberman, Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City (Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of the State of N.Y., Barbara B. Butler, Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellants.

William J. Rold, The Legal Aid Society, Prisoners' Rights Project, New York City (Philip L. Weinstein, Paul T. Belazis, Dori A. Lewis, John Boston, The Legal Aid Society, Prisoners' Rights Project, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before MANSFIELD, KEARSE and WINTER, Circuit Judges.


MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge:

On this appeal we are faced with the question of what role should be played and procedure followed by federal courts in remedying constitutional deficiencies in a state's administration of its prisons — in this case the failure of New York State to provide adequate dental health care and services to prisoners at its Bedford Hills Correctional Facility (BH). In this civil rights action by prisoners...

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