Alford v. Selsky

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

*809Petitioner, a prison inmate, was found guilty of possessing a weapon and engaging in conduct involving the threat of violence after it was revealed from multiple confidential sources that petitioner was planning on using his influence to encourage a confrontation between competing ethnic groups in the prison facility. Based…