In 1981, Juvenile Law Center filed a civil rights class action lawsuit in federal court challenging Pennsylvania law and practices that governed the detention of youth charged with committing delinquent acts. Defendants included a statewide class of Pennsylvania juvenile court judges and juvenile probation officers. The lawsuit aimed to reduce unnecessary pre-trial incarceration of juveniles in Pennsylvania’s juvenile detention centers.
https://jlc.org/cases/coleman-v-stanziani