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FOUR CERTAIN UNNAMED INMATES OF MAS. v. HALL

No. 76-1554.

550 F.2d 1291 (1977)

FOUR CERTAIN UNNAMED INMATES OF MASSACHUSETTS CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION AT WALPOLE, MASSACHUSETTS, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Frank A. HALL et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 18, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lee Carl Bromberg, Special Asst. Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., for appellants.

Richard J. Vita, Dorchester, Mass., and Alan P. Caplan, Boston, Mass., with whom Thomas C. Troy, Troy & Vita, Dorchester, Mass., Caplan, Christiansen & Reichlin, Martin K. Leppo, Anthony Traini, Boston, Mass., Jerry C. Effren, and Angelo P. Catanzaro, Dorchester, Mass., were on brief, for appellees.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, and ALDRICH and CAMPBELL, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

After a rash of murders in the state prison at Walpole, Massachusetts, prison officials began an investigation. When an imminent newspaper story threatened the investigation's secrecy, the officials decided to act swiftly. They seized several inmates suspected of participating in the murders and placed them in a segregation unit, where they could not be harmed or cause harm to others. See Mass. Gen'l Laws Ann. ch. 127 § 39; cf. id. ...

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