Smith v. Goord

ORDER

PEEBLES, United States Magistrate Judge.

This action is brought by plaintiff Jeremie Smith, a former prison inmate, against the New York State Department of Correctional *239Services (“DOCS”) Commissioner and several other DOCS employees or affiliates, asserting civil rights claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff, who suffers from a potentially severe psychiatric condition, maintains that while in the custody of the DOCS he was sentenced to periods of disciplinary confinement in a special housing unit (“SHU”) at the facility in which he was incarcerated, without due process; that the…