Matter of Dallas v. Lee

Proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78 (transferred to this Court by order of the Supreme Court, entered in Ulster County) to review a determination of respondent finding petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

Petitioner was charged with violating prison disciplinary rules after an incident in the prison mattress shop, in which 30 inmates collectively stopped working, stood in line for the bathroom in an apparent protest over a new bathroom pass policy and then refused direct orders to disperse and resume working. Following a tier II disciplinary hearing, petitioner…