Legal Opinion
Fisher v. Goord
District Court, W.D. New York
Decided July 16, 1997No. 1:96-cv-00486PublishedCited by 155 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER
ARCARA, District Judge.
INTRODUCTION
On July 18, 1996, plaintiffs, Amy Fisher (“Fisher”), an inmate at the Albion Correctional Facility (“Albion”), and her mother Roseann Fisher (“Mrs.Fisher”), commenced this action in the Eastern District of New York. The case was subsequently transferred to this Court.
Plaintiffs allege that, while Fisher has been incarcerated in Albion, she has been raped and sexually abused by several correction officers. They claim that they complained about the correction officers’ conduct to various officials in the New York State Department of…
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