Hoyer v. Coombe

—Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Clinton County) to review a determination of respondent Commissioner of Correctional Services which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

Petitioner, a prison inmate, was found guilty of possessing escape items and exchanging unauthorized items after corree*880tion officers confiscated a life-sized, wooden monkey head and other items, including unfinished imitation body parts, from his cell. As a penalty, he was given 365 days confinement in the Special…