Janis 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 a prison disciplinary rule.

Petitioner, a prison inmate, was charged in a misbehavior report with fighting. The reporting correction officer relayed that he received information that petitioner had an altercation with another inmate two days earlier, at which time petitioner struck the other inmate twice in the arm, causing bruising. Following a…