Greene 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 Commissioner of Corrections and Community Supervision which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

During a mail watch, correction officials intercepted a letter that petitioner tried to send to his mother requesting that she send him a UCC form so that he could place a lien against his ex-wife’s property. Petitioner did not have permission to have UCC forms. As a result, he was charged in a…