Santos v. Coughlin

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Ulster 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 Wallkill Correctional Facility in Ulster County, was found guilty of violating several prison disciplinary rules, including those concerning arson and destruction of property as a result of several fires set in other inmates’ cells. The only evidence connecting petitioner to the fires was…