Matter of Pagan v. Annucci

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Albany County) to review a determination of respondent finding petitioner guilty of violating a prison disciplinary rule.

During the course of an investigation, correction officials received confidential information revealing that petitioner and two other inmates were planning to escape from the correctional facility. As a result, petitioner was charged in a misbehavior report with conspiracy to escape. He was found guilty of the charge following a tier III disciplinary hearing and the…