MATTER OF HARRIS v. COUGHLIN


157 A.D.2d 997 (1990)

In the Matter of William Harris, Appellant, v. Thomas A. Coughlin, III, as Commissioner of The Department of Correctional Services, et al., Respondents

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

January 25, 1990


Mahoney, P. J.

Petitioner, who is legally blind, is serving a sentence of incarceration at Eastern Correctional Facility in Ulster County. He commenced this CPLR article 78 proceeding alleging that he has been denied access to hot water and prevented from exercising indoors or eating in the absence of fluorescent lights, contrary to the needs of his blindness. Supreme Court dismissed the petition, concluding that petitioner failed to exhaust his administrative...

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