NYDN: NY prisoner in solitary for nearly 200 days over false positive on drug test: lawsuit

NYDN: NY prisoner in solitary for nearly 200 days over false positive on drug test: lawsuit by Stephen Rex Brown and Chelsie Rose Marcius (“The suit is part of a growing statewide scandal over an avalanche of false positives that have potentially impacted thousands of prisoners. A class action lawsuit was filed last week in Brooklyn Federal against Microgenics, the company that provided the drug tests to the state’s corrections department and trained correction officers on how to use them. But for Cortes, the drug company isn’t the only entity at fault — he believes New York state must also take some share of the blame.”)