Small v. New York City Department of Correction

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK SAMUEL SMALL, Plaintiff, 09-CV-1912 (RA) v. OPINION & ORDER CITY OF NEW YORK, et al., Defendants. RONNIE ABRAMS, United States District Judge:1 In March 2009, Plaintiff Samuel Small initiated this civil rights action pursuant to

42 U.S.C. § 1983

against the City of New York, the warden of a correctional facility on Rikers Island, and three of its correction officers. Small alleged that he was attacked by members of a violent gang—the Bloods—on three separate occasions between October 2006 and March 2009 while he was in the custody of…