Legal Opinion
Pena v. New York State Division for Youth
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided February 11, 1976No. 70 Civ. 4868PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FINDINGS OF FACT and CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
MOTLEY, District Judge.
This action is brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on behalf of all children placed with and paroled from the Goshen Annex for Boys, an institution within the New York State Training School system, challenging under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments the use of isolation, the use of hand and feet restraints, and the use of thorazine or other tranquilizing drugs to control excited behavior of the children. Jurisdiction is conferred upon this court by 28 U.S.C. § 1343(3) and 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201, et seq.
The complaint in this case was…
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