Ware v. Hendel

*602Proceeding 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.

As the result of a confidential investigation, correction officials discovered that petitioner was using the inmate telephone system to direct his girlfriend to bring drugs to the correctional facility. Consequently, he was charged in a misbehavior report with smuggling, conspiring to introduce drugs into the facility and…