Gildea v. Commissioner of Correction

This is a bill in equity filed on August 27, 1956, by a prisoner in Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Walpole, formerly called the State prison, under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 231 A, praying that "§ 129 of c. 127 of the General Laws as it is now and has been in effect be construed in its. application to . . . [the plaintiff], particularly with respect” to a forfeiture by the parole board in January, 1956, of certain good conduct credits accumulated by the plaintiff before October 20, 1955. The commissioner of cor-, rection and the members of the parole board are joined as, defendants. -

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