LANGLEY v. COUGHLIN

Nos. 237, 242, Dockets 89-2184, 89-2186.

888 F.2d 252 (1989)

Carolyn LANGLEY, Alberta Succaw, Shirley Furtick and Celeste Cleckley, on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, and Michelle Burris, Intervenor-Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Thomas COUGHLIN, III, Commissioner of the New York State Department of Correctional Services, Elaine Lord, Superintendent, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, George Duncan, former Lieutenant for Security and Inmate Discipline, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, Dr. Ronald J. Klug, former New York State Office of Mental Health Satellite Unit Chief, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, all individually, Defendants-Appellants, and Frank Headley, former Superintendent, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, Defendant. Corean EVANS, Plaintiff, v. Thomas COUGHLIN, III, Commissioner, New York State Department of Correctional Services, Elaine Lord, Superintendent, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, Frank Headley, former Superintendent, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, George Duncan, former Lieutenant for Security and Inmate Discipline, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, and Dr. Ronald J. Klug, former New York State Office of Mental Health Satellite Unit Chief, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, all individually, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided October 25, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Spolzino, Mount Kisco, N.Y. (Brett Peter Linn, Leslie Swift Maher, Singleton, Keegan & Spolzino, Mount Kisco, N.Y., on the brief), for defendant-appellant Klug.

Judith A. Gordon, New York City (Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., Howard L. Zwickel, Chief, Litigation Bureau, Stephen Mendelsohn, William K. Sanders, Asst. Attys. Gen., New York City, on the brief), for defendants-appellants Coughlin, Lord and Duncan.

Elizabeth L. Koob, New York City (Joan Magoolaghan, Koob, Magoolaghan & Salzman, Ruth Cassell, Prisoners' Legal Services, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellees and intervenor-plaintiff-appellee.

Before FEINBERG and NEWMAN, Circuit Judges, and DUMBAULD, Senior District Judge.


DUMBAULD, District Judge:

This is a class action, brought in behalf of mentally ill female prisoners at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, alleging failure to furnish appropriate medical care, as required by Estelle v. Gamble, 429 U.S. 97, 103, 97 S.Ct. 285, 290-91, 50 L.Ed.2d 251 (1976), and placement of prisoners in conditions of confinement amounting to "cruel and unusual punishment," as defined in Rhodes v. Chapman,...

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