Monko v. Selsky

—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 the Commissioner of Correctional Services which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

Petitioner was found guilty of violating prison disciplinary rules prohibiting possession of altered items and paraphernalia giving reasonable grounds to believe that escape is planned after a 1½-inch piece of plastic eating utensil with a staple melted into one end was discovered in petitioner’s cell. Finding that the…