Legal Opinion
Haverty v. Commissioner of Correction
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided October 10, 2002PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMarshall, C.J.
This appeal presents, in yet another form, the chronic controversy generated by the tension between efforts by the Commissioner of Correction (commissioner) to manage our prison system, and claims by prisoners for protection from alleged violations of their constitutional and statutory rights.4 This clash also arises, as here, in efforts to reconcile the interests served by punishment: deterrence, isolation and incapacitation, retribution and moral reinforcement, and reformation. See Cepulonis v. Commonwealth, 384 Mass. 495, 499 (1981), citing Commonwealth v. O’Neal, 369 Mass. 242, 251 & n.11…
2Cases cited22 opinions
- Sandin v. ConnerSupreme Court of the United States · 1995
- Attorney General v. BaileyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
- Purity Supreme, Inc. v. Attorney GeneralMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
- Ng Bros. Construction, Inc. v. CranneyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2002
- Longval v. Commissioner of CorrectionMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1989
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3Cited by22 opinions
- Regis College v. Town of WestonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2012
- LaChance v. Commissioner of CorrectionMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2012
- Haverty v. Commissioner of CorrectionMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2003
- Longval v. Commissioner of CorrectionMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2007
- LaChance v. Commissioner of CorrectionMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2016
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