Cross v. Commissioner of Correction

In November, 1987, the plaintiff, a prisoner at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk, filed a pro se complaint requesting declaratory and injunctive relief in the Superior Court in Norfolk County. The plaintiff sought a declaratory judgment to the effect that New Hampshire had violated the terms of the Interstate Agreement on Detainers Act (Act), to which both Massachusetts and New Hampshire are parties. He also sought an injunction ordering the Massachusetts defendant to return a detainer lodged by New Hampshire authorities against him at M.C.I., Norfolk.

Both defendants…