Cannon v. Artus

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

After a letter sent by petitioner to a third party was returned by the United States Postal Service, correction officials opened it and discovered another letter addressed to an inmate at a different correctional facility. As a result, petitioner was charged *994with attempting to smuggle an unauthorized item, violating facility correspondence procedures and…