Following a tier III disciplinary hearing, petitioner, a prison inmate, was found guilty of violating the prison disciplinary rule prohibiting the possession of a weapon. The charge was based upon the recovery of a shank-type weapon made from a tailor shop needle melted into the ink tube of a plastic pen, discovered during a frisk of petitioner's cell. Upon administrative appeal, the penalty imposed was reduced, but the determination was otherwise upheld. Thereafter, petitioner...
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