LOUIS v. WARD

No. 76 Civil 1315.

444 F.Supp. 1107 (1978)

Harold LOUIS, Plaintiff, v. Benjamin WARD, Individually and in his official capacity as Director of New York State Department of Corrections, and Roy F. Bombard, Individually and in his official capacity as Superintendent of Green Haven Correctional Facility, Defendants.

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

January 19, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold Louis, pro se.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of N. Y., New York City, for defendants; Ilene P. Karpf, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City, Robert J. Schack, Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City, of counsel.


OPINION

EDWARD WEINFELD, District Judge.

Plaintiff alleges that defendant prison officials at Green Haven Correctional Facility did not permit plaintiff's girlfriend and his daughter to visit him and deliver a package to him on January 24, 1976. As a result, he further alleges that his girlfriend and daughter waited four hours in "sub-zero" weather for a return bus to New York City. Plaintiff claims that the acts of the defendants constituted cruel and unusual...

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