Williams 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 Correctional Services which found petitioner guilty of violating a prison disciplinary rule.

Following a tier III disciplinary hearing, petitioner, a prison inmate, was found guilty of violating the prison disciplinary rule prohibiting inmates from displaying unauthorized organizational insignia. A correction officer had confiscated two photographs showing petitioner displaying what appeared to be a gang hand signal. The…