Watts v. Coombe

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 a prison disciplinary rule.

On June 19, 1995, inmates at Auburn Correctional Facility in Cayuga County went on strike, refusing to leave their cells for work or meals, in protest of double celling. As a result of this inmate-initiated "lock-in”, correction officials imposed a prison lock-in. By inmate misbehavior report dated June 22, 1995, petitioner was charged with violating a prison…