Legal Opinion
Matthews v. Rakiey
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided May 5, 1995No. 93-P-1150PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGreenberg, J.
Lloyd Matthews is a prisoner at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Cedar Junction. He brought this action pro se, seeking injunctive relief and dam*491ages for violations of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1988), the Massachusetts Civil Rights Act, G. L. c. 12, §§ 11H & 111 (the MCRA), and the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. At issue is the application of an institutional policy regarding noncontact visitation at Cedar Junction. The policy is recited in an institutional regulation, 103 WAL 483.19, which in pertinent part provides: “Only the Superintendent will be authorized…
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