Jacques v. Coughlin

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme *930Court, entered in Ulster County) to review a determination of respondent Commissioner of Correctional Services which found petitioner guilty of violating a prison disciplinary rule.

Petitioner was found guilty after a Superintendent’s hearing of violating a prison disciplinary rule prohibiting sexual acts among inmates. The misbehavior report, in conjunction with the testimony of the correction officer who authored the report and witnessed the incident, established that petitioner and another inmate were…