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Lawsuit on Prison Conditions Dismissed

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: June 6, 2006

A federal judge has dismissed an 11-year-old lawsuit over conditions in New York State prisons, state officials said. The lawsuit, first filed in 1995, claimed that the state's policy of assigning two inmates to cells originally designed for one person violated the prisoners' constitutional rights. In a decision dated May 26, Judge Gerard Lynch of Federal District Court in Manhattan said the policy was not unconstitutional. The state's prison population, which peaked at 71,472 inmates in 1999, has declined during the past several years. There are now 63,000 inmates in the state's 69 prisons.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/06/nyregion/06mbrfs-brief-005.html?_r=1&oref=slogin