Judgment affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
On October 14, 1982, the plaintiffs Elton Smith and John Leonard, who were employees at Kings County Hospital Center, were taken hostage in their basement locker room by an inmate of the Brooklyn House of Detention. The inmate, who had been taken to the hospital for treatment of a broken wrist, escaped from the custody of two armed correction officers while being transported from a second-floor clinic to the basement...
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