MATTER OF STEPHENS v. WARD


63 A.D.2d 798 (1978)

In the Matter of John Stephens, Appellant, v. Benjamin Ward, as Commissioner of New York State Department of Correctional Services, et al., Respondents

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

May 18, 1978


Petitioner, a 55-year-old Black male suffering from a heart condition, hypertension and diabetes, is presently serving a sentence of from three to six years at the Clinton Correctional Facility. In April, 1977 he was a patient at the Champlain Valley Hospital and thereafter was given prison hospital care with a special diet from April, 1977 to September 27, 1977. On the latter date he was placed in a special section of the general...

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