Dizak v. Prack

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.

As a group of inmates was lining up to proceed to the mess hall, a correction officer noted that petitioner was walking in the opposite direction and attempting to conceal items under *1473his coat. The officer discovered that the items were an envelope and notepad, and he ordered petitioner to turn them over for…