Keesh v. Smith

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 which found petitioner guilty of violating a prison disciplinary rule.

Petitioner was charged with violating a prison disciplinary rule that prohibits inmates from sending outgoing mail that includes material for a person other than the one who is the addressee on the envelope (see 7 NYCRR 720.3 [o]); the misbehavior report alleged that petitioner sent letters to three different people in one envelope that was addressed to only one…