Messere v. Commissioner of Correction

A judge of the Superior Court granted summary judgment for the defendants on the plaintiff’s original and supplemental complaints. In those complaints, the plaintiff, an inmate at M.C.I., Cedar Junction who is acting pro se, made numerous allegations centering on what he alleged was unlawful punishment imposed on him in connection with two “very minor” infractions. The punishment on each occasion involved overnight lock-up of the plaintiff in his cell. We affirm the judgment.

The background facts are as follows. The first incident occurred on June 6, 1985, when the plaintiff and another inmate…