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INMATES OF THE R.I. TRAINING SCHOOL v. MARTINEZ

C.A. No. 71-4529-L.

465 F.Supp.2d 131 (2006)

INMATES OF THE RHODE ISLAND TRAINING SCHOOL, Plaintiffs, v. Patricia MARTINEZ, in her capacity as Director of the Department for Children, Youth and Families; Patrick C. Lynch, in his capacity as Attorney General for the State of Rhode Island; David Curtin, in his capacity as Chief Disciplinary Counsel for the State of Rhode Island, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Rhode Island.

December 5, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Dineen, Providence, RI, Rebecca Tedford Partington, Attorney General's Office, Providence, RI, Jennifer Louise Wood, RJ. Department of Education, Providence, RI, David C. Fathi, ACLU National Prison Project, Washington, DC, for Plaintiff.

Kevin J. Aucoin, Thomas M. Bohan, Department of Children Youth & Families, Providence, RI, for Defendant.

DECISION AND ORDER

LAGUEUX, Senior District Judge.

The antecedents of this dispute date back to 1971, when a group of juvenile inmates of Rhode Island's Boys' Training School sued the state officials who ran the School under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in an effort to improve the conditions of their confinement at that facility. In 1972, Plaintiffs, a changing group of boys incarcerated at the correctional facility, were certified as a class by Judge Raymond...

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