Smith v. Jones

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this court by order of the Supreme Court at Special Term, entered in Washington County) to review a determination of respondent Commissioner of Corree*799tional Services which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

On November 30, 1984, petitioner, an inmate at Great Meadow Correctional Facility, was served with a misbehavior report charging him with violations of certain disciplinary rules, namely, lying and conspiring to escape. The misbehavior report stated that petitioner had been working in the sheet metal…