District Court, S.D. New York March 29, 1989, Nos. 86 Civ. 3374 (KC), 86 Civ. 4146 (KC), 86 Civ. 8834 (KC) and 87 Civ. 1098 (KC) (Muhammad v. McMickens)

OPINION AND ORDER

CONBOY, District Judge:

This is a consolidated action1 brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Plaintiff

*608Abdul Wahid Abdullah Muhammad, a/k/a Norman Davis, (“Muhammad”), a former inmate in the New York City Department of Correction system, alleges that defendants, the former Commissioner of the Department, the former warden of the House of Detention for Men on Rikers Island