Cacicio v. Secretary of Public Safety

This case concerns facial challenges to new regulations (regulations) of the Department of Correction (department) which permit the monitoring and recording of inmates’ telephone calls. The plaintiffs, six inmates at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Norfolk, filed this pro se action in the Superior Court, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against the Secretary of Public Safety and correction department officials (collectively, government defendants), as well as against New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, and its chief executive officer (NET). The plaintiffs brought…