Bolton v. Goord

OPINION, FINDINGS OF FACT & CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

STEIN, District Judge.

This civil rights action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 challenges the New York State practice of “double-celling” — housing two inmates in a prison cell previously used to house one inmate — at Woodbourne Correctional Facility (‘Woodbourne”) as violative of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. Plaintiffs claim that the conditions of confinement for double-celled inmates constitute cruel and unusual punishment proscribed by the Eight Amendment and that double-celling violated…