Brooks v. Commissioner of Special Housing Unit

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 the Commissioner of Corrections and Community Supervision which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

During the course of an investigation, which included the monitoring of petitioner’s telephone calls, correction officials determined that petitioner was attempting to bring drugs into the correctional facility through his wife. As a result, he was charged in a misbehavior report with smuggling and conspiring…