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NELSON v. HEYNE

Civ. A. No. 72 S 98.

355 F.Supp. 451 (1972)

Eric NELSON, by his next friend, Corine Nelson, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Robert P. HEYNE, Individually and in his capacity as Commissioner of Corrections, Indiana Department of Corrections, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Indiana, South Bend Division.

Supplemental Opinion February 8, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas DiGrazia, Youth Advocacy Program, John P. Forhan, Legal Services—Legal Education Program, South Bend, Ind., for plaintiffs.

T. E. Lauer, Director, Ralph Faust, Jr., St. Louis, Mo., Thomas L. Shaffer, Dean, University of Notre Dame Law School, Thomas F. Broden, Jr., Director, Institute of Urban Studies, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind., for plaintiffs, on behalf of the National Juvenile Law Center, amicus curiae.

Dale E. McCoy, Asst. Atty. Gen., Indianapolis, Ind., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

GRANT, Senior District Judge.

On May 12, 1972, Plaintiffs filed a class action seeking declaratory and injunctive relief with respect to the Defendants' operation of the Indiana Boys School.

The Indiana Boys School is a medium security state correctional institution for boys 12 to 18 years of age, an estimated one-third of whom are non-criminal offenders. Although its optimum capacity is something less than 300, the School's...

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