Otero v. New York City Department of Corrections

Determination of respondent Commissioner, dated September 8, 2000, which, after a prison disciplinary hearing, found petitioner guilty of possession of narcotics and imposed a penalty of 3,600 days in punitive segregation, unanimously modified, on the law and the facts, to reduce the penalty to 90 days, and the proceeding brought pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, New York County [Sheila Abdus-Salaam, J.], entered April 27, 2001) otherwise disposed of by confirming the remainder of the determination, without costs.

Upon review of the record,…