GARTH, Circuit Judge, dissenting: As a Senior Circuit judge, I am permitted to vote for panel rehearing, and I do so in this case. In my opinion, the decision of the majority constitutes an unwarranted intrusion by a federal court into the Commonwealth’s prison system before any determination has ever been made that the Commonwealth has violated the Federal Constitution. Not only did the majority ignore the th…
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