BADGLEY v. SANTACROCE

No. CV 80-2916.

689 F.Supp. 148 (1987)

Herbert BADGLEY, James Barnes, Mitchell Chapman, Robert Gunsberg, (a/k/a Robert Alvino), Maurice McCorkle, Frank Ricchiuti, Oscar Rodriguez and Henry Smith, inmates of the Nassau County Correctional Center and Eugene Chapman, Lee McCorkle and Katherine Ricchiuti, members of inmates' families, individually and on behalf of all persons similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Joseph J. SANTACROCE, Sheriff of Nassau County, Walter J. Flood, Warden of Nassau County Correctional Center, individually and in their official capacities; and the County of Nassau, Defendants.

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

June 5, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew Muraskin, Legal Aid Soc. of Nassau County, Mineola (Morton J. Marshack, of counsel), for plaintiffs.

James M. Catterson, Jr., Port Jefferson, Snitow & Pauley, Walter J. Flood and County of Nassau, New York City (William H. Pauley, III, of counsel), Edward T. O'Brien, Mineola, N.Y., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OF DECISION AND ORDER

MISHLER, District Judge.

Defendants move to modify the Amended Consent Decree ("Decree") filed on October 9, 1984 by increasing the authorized maximum in-house population of the core facility at the Nassau County Correctional Center ("NCCC") from 710 to 750. A mess hall in the building in which the core facility of the "NCCC" is located has been converted into a dormitory housing 40 inmates. Plaintiffs oppose defendants'...

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