Goncalves v. Goord

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

Petitioner was found guilty of violating the prison disciplinary rules that prohibit making threats and conduct involving the threat of violence. The misbehavior report relates that at a time when petitioner was an inmate at Attica Correctional Facility in Wyoming County, he sent a letter to respondent Victor T.…