State ex rel. M.L.N. v. Greiner

McGRAW, Chief Justice:

The relators in this original jurisdiction action are three eighteen year old male persons who remain under continuing juvenile court jurisdiction pursuant to West Virginia Code § 49-5-2 (1986 Replacement Vol.).1 They allege that their confinement in the “juvenile detention portion” of the Wood County Correctional Center violates certain minimal standards of confinement mandated by the Legislature and that the overall conditions of their confinement are unconstitutionally deficient. Based on these allegations, the relators have asked this Court to compel their permanent…