JEFFERY v. MALCOLM

No. 72 Civ. 3867.

353 F.Supp. 395 (1973)

Leroy JEFFERY, in his own behalf and on behalf of all other persons similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Benjamin MALCOLM, Commissioner of Correction for the City of New York, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

January 16, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leroy Jeffery, pro se.

Norman Redlich, New York City Corp. Counsel, New York City, by Victor P. Muskin, New York City, for defendants.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., State of N. Y., New York City, by Michael Colodner, New York City, Intervenor pro se.


POLLACK, District Judge.

Plaintiff pro se, a state prisoner, brings this purported class action suit on behalf of all the prisoners at Rikers Island (New York City Adult Remand Shelter, East Elmhurst, New York) for a declaration that New York Penal Law § 70.30(4)(a) and (b), McKinney's Consol.Laws, c. 40, violates the Equal Protection Clause and for an injunction against further enforcement of the challenged section. The Attorney General has moved to intervene...

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