Coleman v. Harko

— Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Washington County) to review a determination of the Superintendent of Great Meadow Correctional Facility which found petitioner guilty of violating a prison disciplinary rule.

The misbehavior report was written by the correction officer who saw petitioner "passing an article amongst five or six muslim inmates” while the correction officer was supervising their activities from a sergeant’s stand. A frisk of petitioner revealed a book titled "Essentials of Muslim Prayer”. The correction…