Johnson v. Meese

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

PHILIP PRATT, Chief Judge.

This is a class action originally brought on behalf of approximately 200 inmates at the Federal Corrections Institute at Milan, Michigan, who were sentenced to custodial terms under the Youth Corrections Act, 18 U.S.C. § 5005 et seq. (YCA). In 1980, this court held that the defendants had violated the YCA by not giving youthful offenders individual treatment as mandated by statute, and by not segregating YCA inmates from adult inmates. Johnson v. Bell, 487 F.Supp. 977 (E.D.Mich.1980). The court directed the parties to formulate a…