Blake v. Commissioner of Correction

After we affirmed the judge’s allowance of the plaintiffs’ motions for partial summary judgment, see Blake v. Commissioner of Correction, 390 Mass. 537, 538 n.3 (1983), another judge of the Superior Court held hearings, and thereafter entered a judgment in favor of the plaintiffs, eight Massachusetts prisoners. In Blake, we agreed “with the determination of a judge of the Superior Court that, under regulations of the Department of Correction . . . , an inmate in a Massachusetts correctional institution may not lawfully be transferred to a Federal correctional institution in another State…