Sanchez v. Selsky

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

Petitioner is an inmate at Great Meadow Correctional Facility in Washington County. After an incident in which petitioner took an inmate barber as a hostage, refused an order to exit a shower area and used a metal rod to assault a correction officer, petitioner was found guilty of violating numerous prison…