Jamison v. State of New York Department of Correctional Services

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 Corrections and Community Supervision which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

In connection with petitioner’s admission to the special housing unit, his property was searched, placed in a storage bin and secured in the property room. When petitioner was being processed for transfer out of the special housing unit, a state-issued jacket, which had been removed from petitioner’s bin and…