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LIBBY v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION

385 Mass. 421 (1982)

432 N.E.2d 486

CLAYTON LIBBY & others vs. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

March 2, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ann Lambert Greenblatt (Judith A. Stalus with her) for the plaintiffs.

John W. Bishop, Jr., Special Assistant Attorney General, for the defendant.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., LIACOS, ABRAMS, NOLAN, & LYNCH, JJ.

LYNCH, J.

This case involves a challenge to the conditions under which prisoners serve isolation time in the departmental segregation unit in Block 10 of the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole (Walpole). The plaintiffs, inmates of Block 10, allege that those conditions constitute cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution2 and art. 26 of the Massachusetts Declaration...

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