Legal Opinion
Piggott v. Commissioner of Correction
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided July 9, 1996No. 94-P-989PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGreenberg, J.
While incarcerated at Southeastern Correctional Center at Bridgewater (M.C.I., Bridgewater), prisoners Sean Piggott and Christopher Harding filed a complaint for declaratory relief in the Superior Court claiming that the defendant, the Commissioner of Correction (commissioner), unconstitutionally withheld good time credits earned by them for participation in programs under G. L. c. 127, § 129D.2 They sought an award of earned good time credits which the commissioner had denied them on August 21, 1987, by depriving certain prisoners of eligibility for earned good time credits for participation…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Hewitt v. HelmsSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Brown v. Commissioner of CorrectionMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1958
- Robert C. Beauchamp v. Paul Murphy, the Superintendent of the Old Colony Correctional CenterCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1994
- Manning v. Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional InstitutionMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1977
- LynchMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1980
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Haverty v. Commissioner of CorrectionMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2003
- Gardner v. Commissioner of CorrectionMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2002
- Williams v. Superintendent, Massachusetts Treatment CenterMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2012
- Commonwealth v. MaldonadoMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2005
- Commonwealth v. DeWeldonMassachusetts Appeals Court · 2011
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