Inmates of Boys' Training School v. Affleck

OPINION PETTINE, Chief Judge.

The indignities suffered by juveniles who did not respond well to their confinement to the Boys Training School and the attempts of Training School officials to cope with the disciplinary and running-away problems presented by such juveniles lead to the institution of this Civil Rights action. Confinement of these juveniles in the maximum security Adult Correctional Institution, in the resuscitated relic of a former women’s prison, in dim and cold steel cell-blocks, and in a wing of the adult medium security prison is argued to violate plaintiffs’ constitutional…