Bennett v. New York City Department of Corrections

OPINION AND ORDER

MUKASEY, District Judge.

Defendants the New York City Department of Corrections (DOC) and Richard Koehler, as Commissioner of DOC, move for summary judgment dismissing plaintiff Lucia Bennett’s suit alleging race and sex discrimination. Fed.R.Civ.P. 56(b). For the reasons below, defendants’ motion is granted in part and denied in part.

I

Bennett is a black woman and a Corrections Officer who has worked at The Bronx Men’s House of Detention (the prison), a DOC facility, since August 31, 1983. The summary judgment motion requires that the record be viewed in the light most…