Hayes v. Coombe

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Albany County) to review a determination of respondent Commissioner of Correctional Services which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

As the result of a prison disturbance which occurred at Gouverneur Correctional Facility in St. Lawrence County in early July 1995, petitioner was charged in eight separate misbehavior reports with violating 29 prison disciplinary rules. After a Superintendent’s hearing, he was found guilty of several of the charges. He…