Adams 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 certain prison disciplinary rules.

During the course of an investigation in which confidential information was received, correction officials discovered that petitioner was involved with other inmates in illegal gang activities that included, among other things, arranging to have another inmate assaulted and bringing weapons into the correctional facility. As a result, he was charged in a…