Reid v. Coughlin

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

Petitioner, a prison inmate, was found guilty of refusing a direct order as the result of his failure to cooperate with correction officers in conducting a strip-frisk. Upon review of the record, we find that the misbehavior report and testimony of the correction officers who witnessed the incident provides substantial…