Chilcott v. Bintz

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in St. Lawrence County) to review a determination of respondent Superintendent of Riverview Correctional Facility which found petitioner guilty of violating a prison disciplinary rule.

Petitioner was found guilty of violating the prison disciplinary rule prohibiting inmates from using credit cards.* This infraction came to light when a clerk in the facility’s mailroom noticed a letter sent to petitioner from a mail order company informing him that the credit card account number he had given…