Legal Opinion
Purvis v. Commissioner of Correction
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided August 28, 1990No. 89-P-310PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
We are once again presented with a challenge by a prisoner to the process by which he was transferred to a higher custody status. The specific defect claimed here is that the prisoner was not afforded a reclassification hearing as matter of State law before his transfer to the higher custody status.2 See Blake v. Commissioner of Correction, 390 *191Mass. 537, 537-538 (1983); 103 Code Mass. Regs. 420.13 (1978).
Notwithstanding the fact that the prisoner was given a hearing before the classification board sixteen days after his transfer to the higher custody status,3 the entry of summary judgment in…
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