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BENJAMIN v. MALCOLM

No. 75 Civ. 3073 (MEL).

495 F.Supp. 1357 (1980)

James BENJAMIN, Miguel Galindez, Bruce Hayes, Jose Saldana and Robert Eschert, detainees of the New York City House of Detention for Men, individually and on behalf of all other persons similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Benjamin J. MALCOLM, Commissioner of Correction of the City of New York; Arthur Rubin, Warden, New York City House of Detention for Men; Gerard Brown, Deputy Warden, New York City House of Detention for Men; and Abraham D. Beame, Mayor of the City of New York, individually and in their official capacities, Defendants.

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

August 27, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William E. Hellerstein, Theodore H. Katz, John Boston, Michael B. Mushlin, Amy Rothstein, The Legal Aid Society Prisoners' Rights Project, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Allen G. Schwartz, Corp. Counsel, New York City, for defendants; Leonard Koerner, Paul T. Rephen, Asst. Corp. Counsels, New York City.

LASKER, District Judge.

The House of Detention for Men on Rikers Island (HDM) is presently the exclusive1 facility used for pre-trial detention of men who are charged with crimes occurring in New York County. HDM is adjoined by and connected to two other facilities for detention of men known, respectively, as C71 and C95. Collectively they are referred to below as "the Complex." In June 1975, this civil rights suit was instituted on behalf...

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