Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court October 3, 1991 (Bannister v. Commonwealth)

Nolan, J.

The plaintiff brought this action under G. L. c. 258 (1990 ed.), the Massachusetts Tort Claims Act, for injuries sustained on October 4, 1982, while he was a prisoner at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Walpole (M.C.I., Walpole). The injuries arose out of an altercation which followed the plaintiffs assault on another inmate.