Reynolds v. Goord

OPINION AND ORDER

COTE, District Judge.

This case addresses the rationality of a policy of the New York State Department of Correctional Services (“DOCS”) which places inmates who refuse to submit to a Mantoux skin test — which is designed to detect whether the inmate is infected with the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (“TB”) — into a restrictive confinement known as Tuberculin Hold (“TB Hold”) for one year. Dennis Reynolds (“Reynolds”), the plaintiff in this case, is a Rastafarian inmate at Green Haven Correctional Facility (“Green Haven”). He refused to submit to the skin test on May 12,…