U.S. District Court: TEMPERATURE.

• Position: Prisoners and prisons - Brief Article

Leach v. Dufrain, 103 F.Supp.2d 542 (N.D.N.Y. 2000). A state prison inmate brought a sections] 1983 action against corrections officials alleging constitutional violations. The district court granted summary judgment for the defendants. The court held that there was no evidence concerning allegedly cold cell conditions, such as the date, outside temperature, or a corroborating statement by another prisoner. The court found that the regulation of hair length was not gender discrimination...