NEWTON v. STATE OF NEW YORK


283 A.D.2d 992 (2001)

725 N.Y.S.2d 503

CURTIS NEWTON, Appellant, v. STATE OF NEW YORK, Respondent. (Claim No. 85626.)

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Fourth Department.

Decided May 2, 2001.


Judgment unanimously affirmed without costs.

Memorandum:

Claimant, an inmate at Attica Correctional Facility, commenced this action seeking damages for the injury that he sustained when another inmate stabbed him in the eye. Claimant alleged that defendant was negligent in its supervision of the inmates and in failing to have heightened security despite its awareness of a serious altercation in another part of the...

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