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PURVIS v. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION

No. 89-P-310.

29 Mass. App. Ct. 190 (1990)

558 N.E.2d 1001

KEVIN C. PURVIS vs. COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTION & another.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

August 28, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter Costanza (Barry Barkow with him) for the plaintiff.

Lena M. Wong for the Commissioner of Correction & another.

Present: BROWN, PERRETTA, & GILLERMAN, JJ.

BROWN, 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 Mass. 537,

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