Dean v. Coughlin

MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge:

On this appeal we are faced with the question of what role should be played and procedure followed by federal courts in remedying constitutional deficiencies in a *208state’s administration of its prisons — in this case the failure of New York State to provide adequate dental health care and services to prisoners at its Bedford Hills Correctional Facility (BH). In this civil rights action by prisoners under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 defendants, the Commissioner and Assistant Commissioner of the New York State Department of Correctional Services (DOCS) and the Superintendent and…