Royce v. Commissioner of Correction

This is an appeal by the plaintiff from the dismissal of his pro se complaint for declaratory relief, by a judge of the Superior Court in Norfolk County, “as contain ing no merit.” 2 Mass. R. Civ. P. 12(b) (6), 365 Mass. 754 (1974). We transferred the plaintiffs appeal here on our own motion.

The plaintiffs complaint sets forth a variety of claims that his transfer to the Departmental Segregation Unit (D.S.U.) at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole (M.C.I., Walpole) was illegal in that the transfer , was in violation of State regulations as well as State statutes, and of his…