Roman v. Selsky

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 Correctional Services which found petitioner guilty of violating a prison disciplinary rule.

Petitioner, a prison inmate, received a woman visitor who was found to have a quantity of heroin secreted in her clothing. Upon being apprehended, the woman gave a sworn statement wherein she claimed that the heroin was “for [her] pain” but also admitted that on numerous prior occasions she had brought heroin into the facility and…