Legal Opinion
Bobby Williams v. Robert B. Greifinger, Deputy Commissioner and Chief Medical Officer of the New York State Department of Correctional Services
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided October 15, 1996No. 1966, Docket 96-2163PublishedCited by 89 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOUIS H. POLLAK, Senior District Judge:
Plaintiff Bobby Williams, an inmate at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, seeks to challenge a policy under which he was held in a status called “medical keeplock” for 589 days, without any opportunity for out-of-cell exercise, as a result of his refusal to take a tuberculosis test. Claiming that this policy’s bar on out-of-cell exercise violated the Eighth Amendment, he has brought suit, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, against Robert Grei-finger, who was Deputy Commissioner and Chief Medical Officer of the New York State Department of Correctional Services…
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