PEOPLES v. FISCHER

No. 11 Civ. 2694 (SAS).

898 F.Supp.2d 618 (2012)

Leroy PEOPLES, Plaintiff, v. Brian FISCHER, DOCS Commissioner, Lucien Leclaire, Jr., DOCS Office of Counsel, William Lee, Peter A. Crusco, Eric C. Rosenbaum, Richard A. Brown, Lt. L. Ward, Sgt., O'Connor, C.O. Malare, C.O. Drown, Norman Bezio, D. Rock, Lt. Ward, and Karen Bellamy, Defendants.

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

June 26, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

LeRoy Peoples, Attica, NY, pro se.

Jeb Harben , Assistant Attorney General, New York, NY, for Defendants.


OPINION AND ORDER

SHIRA A. SCHEINDLIN, District Judge:

I. INTRODUCTION

As the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons recently found, "[t]he overreliance on and inappropriate use of segregation hurts individual prisoners and officers. But the consequences are broader than that: The misuse of segregation works against the process of rehabilitating people and threatens public safety."1 In 2010, the...

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