Scott v. Coughlin

U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · Decided 2003-09-17

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CARDAMONE, Circuit Judge. We deal on this appeal with a prison inmate’s suit brought against two corrections officers for alleged violations of his civil rights. A reading of the record affords us a small glimpse of prison life made more vivid by the words of Thomas Mott Osborne, a New York State penologist, who volunteered to spend a week incognito in Auburn State Prison, a maximum security facility. He later wrote: “An achin…

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