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PENA v. NEW YORK STATE DIVISION FOR YOUTH

No. 70 Civ. 4868.

419 F.Supp. 203 (1976)

Joe PENA et al., Plaintiffs, v. NEW YORK STATE DIVISION FOR YOUTH et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

February 11, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The Legal Aid Society, Juvenile Rights Division by Charles Schinitsky, Mara T. Thorpe, Martin Guggenheim, Brooklyn, N. Y., for plaintiffs.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of N. Y. by Hillel Hoffman, Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City, for defendants.

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...

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