Yes, you can sue the City of New York Department of Corrections for the condition of your confinement at Riker's Island or the State of New York for your confinement in a State facility. New York corrections facilities cannot maintain inhumane prison conditions, deprive inmates of necessities or fail to protect their health or safety, or involve the infliction of pain or injury or deliberate indifference to their risk. The Eighth Amendment is applicable to the States through the Fourteenth Amendment, imposes upon the conditions in which a State may confine those convicted of crimes.  In Rhodes v Kelly, 452 US 337 (1981), the United States Supreme Court held that conditions of confinement must not involve the wanton and unnecessary infliction of pain, nor may they be grossly disproportionate to the severity of the crime warranting imprisonment.  See Rhodes v Kelly, 452 U.S. 337, citing Coker v. Georgia, 433 US 584, 592 (1977); Weems v United States, 217 US 349 (1910).

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