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ALSTON v. COUGHLIN

No. 85 Civ. 5237 (LLS).

668 F.Supp. 822 (1987)

Otis ALSTON, Ernest Icesom and James McGourty, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Thomas A. COUGHLIN III, Commissioner of the New York State Department of Correctional Services, and Theodore Reid, Superintendent of Fishkill Correctional Facility, in their official capacities, Defendants.

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

August 27, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Prisoners' Legal Services of New York, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., for plaintiffs; Deborah Schneer, Dan Getman, Robert Selcov, Stephen M. Latimer, David C. Leven, of counsel.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen. of the State of N.Y., New York City, for defendants; Tarquin Jay Bromley, Barbara B. Butler, Lawrence N. Rothbart, Asst. Attys. Gen., of counsel.

OPINION AND ORDER

STANTON, District Judge.

This is a class action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by inmates in the Fishkill Correctional Facility ("FCF") in Beacon, New York, on behalf of all persons who are or will be confined in FCF. The plaintiff class alleges that the totality of conditions caused by overcrowding at FCF subjects them to cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth1 and Fourteenth Amendments...

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