People v. Brown

The following is the court’s memorandum in connection with the submission by the defendants of certain subpoenas duces tecum directed to the Mayor and the Commissioner of Correction of the City of New York. The said subpoenas call for the production at trial of certain enumerated records bearing upon conditions at the Manhattan House of Detention from January 1,1970. The said items sought embrace such matters as the population of the Tombs, the number of suicides, complaints received during said period concerning alleged physical force or ‘ ‘ brutality ’ ’ exercised by prison officials on…