Abrams v. Coughlin

Levine. J.

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 Commissioner of Correctional Services which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

Petitioner, an inmate at Clinton Correctional Facility in Clinton County, returned from a furlough on February 17, 1988. Upon his return to the prison, petitioner was strip *932searched and his personal property was taken from him and placed in a bag which was then put in a locked locker. The following day…