Word v. Croce.

• Position: Solitary confinement and civil rights claim - Brief Article

U.S. District Court

CONTAGIOUS DISEASES

Word v. Croce, 230 F.Supp.2d 504 (S.D.N.Y. 2002). An inmate sued state corrections officials alleging violation of her constitutional rights when she was left in segregated housing after she refused to submit to a tuberculosis test for religious reasons. The district court granted summary judgment to the officials. The court held that the prison regulation that requires segregated housing of inmates who refuse to submit to a test for latent tuberculosis...