Ratliff v. Cohn

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• holding that a juvenile may seek 6 declaratory and injunctive relief on the basis that her incarceration with adult offenders violated Indiana Constitution
• holding that a juvenile may seek declaratory and injunctive relief on basis that her incarceration with adult offenders violated 4 Indiana Constitution
• although Article IX, section 2 requires the legislature to provide institutions for juvenile offenders, it does not create an individual right for all such offenders to be housed only in such institutions
• “To establish an Eighth Amendment violation, Ratliff ‘must demonstrate that prison officials are “deliberately indifferent” to [her] “serious” medical needs . . . .’”
• “Generally, the constitutional prohibitions against cruel and unusual punishments . . . are proscriptive of atrocious or obsolete punishments and are aimed at the kind and form of the punishment, rather than the duration and amount.”

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