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BOLTON v. GOORD

No. 95CV3768 (SHS).

992 F.Supp. 604 (1998)

Nashawin BOLTON, Jerome Waldo, and Dwight Clark, and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Glenn GOORD, Commissioner of the New York State Department of Correctional Services, Philip Coombe and John P. Keane, Superintendent, Woodbourne Correctional Facility, Defendants.

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

Amended January 23, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexander R. Sussman, Fried, Frank, Harris, Scriver & Jacobsen, New York, NY, for Plaintiff.

Stephen M. Jacoby, Dennis C. Vacco, Atty. Gen., New York, NY, for Defendants.

OPINION, FINDINGS OF FACT & CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

STEIN, District Judge.

This civil rights action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 challenges the New York State practice of "double-celling" — housing two inmates in a prison cell previously used to house one inmate — at Woodbourne Correctional Facility ("Woodbourne") as violative of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. Plaintiffs claim that the conditions...

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