United States of America Ex Rel. Terry L. Wilson v. Joseph Coughlin, Assistant Director, Department of Corrections, Juvenile Division

STEVENS, Circuit Judge.

Four juveniles confined in the Illinois Industrial School for Boys at Sheridan, Illinois, filed petitions for habeas corpus alleging that they were entitled to be released because they have already received punishment greater than that authorized by law for adults guilty of offenses comparable to those which led to their respective delinquency findings. The district court denied the relief requested but ordered the respondent to transfer the four petitioners either to a home or to a different institution and to discontinue the use of the drug thora-zine, or any other…