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FRANCIS v. COUGHLIN

No. 879, Docket 87-9014.

849 F.2d 778 (1988)

Albert FRANCIS, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Thomas A. COUGHLIN, III, Commissioner, Department of Correctional Services, Charles J. Scully, Superintendent, Green Haven Correctional Facility, Capt. Ronald E. Miles, Green Haven Correctional Facility, Lt. Charles Greiner, Ronald Leight, Richard W. Prouty, Frank Arizmendi, Harold J. Smith, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility, and Charles Hernandez, all of New York State Department of Correctional Services, Jointly Severally & Individually, Respectively, Defendants-Appellants, Sgt. B.J. Farrell, Correctional Officer, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 20, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles R. Fraser, Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City (Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of the State of N.Y., Lawrence S. Kahn, Deputy Sol. Gen., New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellants.

William R. Maguire, New York City (Vilia B. Hayes, Hughes Hubbard & Reed, New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellee.

Before KAUFMAN, CARDAMONE and PIERCE, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

On July 23, 1982, while an inmate at New York State's Green Haven Correctional Facility, appellee Albert Francis was accused by two corrections officers of participating in a fight between inmates and prison officers and was placed into the Special Housing Unit ("SHU"), a maximum security section in which inmates are segregated from the general prison population. On July 31, 1982, a prison disciplinary hearing, known as a Superintendent's Proceeding, was...

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