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JORDAN v. SUPERINTENDENT, MASSACHUSETTS CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION, CEDAR JUNCTION

No. 99-P-1582.

53 Mass. App. Ct. 584 (2002)

JOSEPH JORDAN v. SUPERINTENDENT, MASSACHUSETTS CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION, CEDAR JUNCTION.

Court of Appeals of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

January 15, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Jordan, pro se.

Nancy Ankers White, Special Assistant Attorney General, & Thomas E. Abruzzese for the defendant.

Present: BROWN, CYPHER, & KAFKER, JJ.

KAFKER, J.

As he was being confronted in a hallway by a correction officer who had previously reported him for possessing a weapon, an inmate slipped a newspaper through the slot in the door of the cell occupied by another inmate, the plaintiff, Joseph Jordan. The officer immediately opened the cell and discovered an eight and one-half inch piece of flat stock unsharpened metal concealed within the newspaper.1 After a disciplinary hearing...

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