Mitchell v. Venettozzi

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 finding petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

Following a post-visit strip search, correction officials suspected that petitioner was hiding something in his rectum and placed him on a one-on-one contraband watch. One correction officer was searching petitioner’s cell during the watch, while another correction officer noticed that petitioner had an object in…