Howard v. Fischer

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 respondent which found petitioner guilty of violating a prison disciplinary rule.

During a religious event attended by a number of inmates and their families at the correctional facility where petitioner was incarcerated, petitioner gave a speech in which he made statements about the facility staff and the alleged discriminatory manner in which the staff treated certain inmates. As a result, petitioner was charged in a misbehavior report with…