Shaw v. Coughlin

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

In November 1987, petitioner, an inmate at Shawangunk Correctional Facility in Ulster County, was charged with organizing actions against the facility and disobeying a direct order in violation of facility rules 104.12 and 106.10. Specifically, petitioner was charged with refusing a correction officer’s order to go into…