Inmates of the Rhode Island Training School v. Martinez

DECISION AND ORDER

LAGUEUX, Senior District Judge.

The antecedents of this dispute date back to 1971, when a group of juvenile inmates of Rhode Island’s Boys’ Training School sued the state officials who ran the School under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in an effort to improve the conditions of their confinement at that facility. In 1972, Plaintiffs, a changing group of boys incarcerated at the correctional facility, were certified as a class by Judge Raymond Pettine of this Court. In 1973, the parties entered into a Consent Decree which addressed Plaintiffs’ concerns including overcrowding, a deteriorated…