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SCOTT v. COUGHLIN

Docket No. 99-0365.

344 F.3d 282 (2003)

C.J. SCOTT, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. T.A. COUGHLIN, Commissioner, Docs; Philip Coombe, Jr., Acting Commissioner, Docs; Hans Walker, Superintendent, Auburn Correctional Facility; Lieutenant Perkins; J. Stone; M. Buehler, Correctional Officer; R. Shaw; W. Dibiase; F. Deluke, Correctional Officer; Roberts, Hearing Officer; J. Stinson, Superintendent; and J. Rando, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 17, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mitchell S. Kessler, Cohoes, New York, submitted a brief for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Robert M. Goldfarb, Assistant Solicitor General, Albany, New York (Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General, Andrea Oser, Assistant Solicitor General for the State of New York, Albany, New York, of counsel), submitted a brief for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: WALKER, Chief Judge, CARDAMONE, and STRAUB, Circuit Judges.

CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge.

We deal on this appeal with a prison inmate's suit brought against two corrections officers for alleged violations of his civil rights. A reading of the record affords us a small glimpse of prison life made more vivid by the words of Thomas Mott Osborne, a New York State penologist, who volunteered to spend a week incognito in Auburn State Prison, a maximum security facility. He later wrote: "An aching, overwhelming sense of the hideous cruelty...

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