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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Dick grants a request by incarcerated juvenile offenders to certify a class-action civil suit against the Governor of Louisiana and state corrections officials for the transfer of certain youths in state custody to the former “death row” facility at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. The state says the transfers applied to a “handful” of violent youth who were endangering the public by repeatedly attempting to escape from youth care facilities statewide. The suit alleges locked-up youth have been allegedly harmed by the threat of transfer to Angola as a form of punishment where their constitutional rights will be violated by continuous cell restrictions and a lack of educational, rehabilitative, recreational, mental health services. Further, the suit challenges the state’s alleged failure to accommodate a sub-class of disabled children confined at Angola. The goal of the juveniles’ suit is “specific and quite simple:” forbid the state from transferring youth to the state’s maximum-security prison for adult men.