Alvarado v. Commissioner of Special Housing Unit

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Albany County) to review a determination of the Commissioner of Corrections and Community Supervision which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

During the course of an extensive investigation, correction officials discovered that petitioner was the head of a scheme to *967bring drugs into the correctional facility through the use of other inmates and their visitors as couriers. Specifically, it was determined that petitioner’s sister supplied the drugs and…