Ellison v. Coughlin

Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Cardona, J.), entered September 24, 1991 in Ulster County, which granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to annul respondents’ determination that petitioner’s confinement in the special housing unit was to begin on June 11, 1991.

At issue on this appeal is the propriety of respondents’ computation of Special Housing Unit (hereinafter SHU) time owed by an inmate, who is subject to several disciplinary dispositions imposing penalties of SHU time to run consecutively, when the first of the dispositions is…