Anthony Carlo v. Frank O. Gunter

McENTEE, Circuit Judge.

On December 31, 1974, defendant Gunter was appointed Superintendent of MCI Walpole, the commonwealth’s maximum security institution which for some years has been a scene of virtually continuous disruption. 1 His appointment followed by five days the murder of an inmate, the discovery of a cache of guns and ammunition and the consequent beginning of a lockup of the entire institution. In order to end the lockup and resume normal operations Gunter determined to survey the population and segregate potentially dangerous and disruptive inmates in the B wing. Inmates were…