Jackson v. Portuondo

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Ulster County) to review a determination of respondent Commissioner of Correctional Services which found petitioner guilty of violating a prison disciplinary rule.

The misbehavior report charging petitioner with circumventing correspondence procedures by attempting to kite* mail and by attempting to obtain free mailing privileges by means of placing a return address which included a name other than his own on an envelope to be mailed, together with petitioner’s admissions that the two…