Rogers v. Prack

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 the Commissioner of Corrections and Community Supervision which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

A correction officer witnessed petitioner violently attack another correction officer without provocation and strike the officer with closed fist punches in the face and head. When the officer went to assist the officer being attacked, another inmate began striking that officer. The situation was ultimately…