Wood v. Commissioner of Correction

The petitioner appeals from a Superior Court final decree on a bill for declaratory relief seeking to establish that G. L. c. 127, § 83B, does not require forfeiture of prospective “good conduct deductions.”

The following pertinent facts appear from the record before us. The petitioner was originally found guilty of armed robbery and sentenced to a twenty-five to thirty year term. On July 1,1963, the petitioner, while serving his sentence, escaped from a prison camp at Monroe, Massachusetts. He was apprehended and returned to custody on July 5, 1963. As of the date of his escape, the…