Kagan v. State of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Miller, J. P.
It is well settled that the State owes a duty to its incarcerated citizens to provide them with adequate medical care. Today, we reaffirm that principle and uphold, in large measure, an award of damages to an inmate who lost the hearing in one ear as a result of endemic and systematic indifference to her repeated, legitimate medical complaints by the security and medical staff at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility.
The Court of Claims found that prison employees had committed acts of ministerial negligence and awarded damages in the total amount of $304,000…
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