MATTER OF DILLON v. COUGHLIN


153 A.D.2d 50 (1989)

In the Matter of Denis Dillon, Appellant, v. Thomas A. Coughlin, III, as Commissioner of The New York State Department of Correctional Services, et al., Respondents

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

December 28, 1989


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Denis Dillon, District Attorney (George Freed and Bruce E. Whitney of counsel), appellant pro se.

Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Patrick Barnett-Mulligan and Nancy A. Spiegel of counsel), for Thomas A. Coughlin, III, respondent.

Axelrod, Cornachio & Famighetti (Joseph P. Famighetti of counsel), for Kevin Flaherty, respondent.

MAHONEY, P. J., WEISS, MIKOLL and MERCURE, JJ., concur.


LEVINE, J.

In 1987, the Legislature added article 26-A to the Correction Law to create a "Shock Incarceration Program" (Correction Law §§ 865-867, as added by L 1987, ch 261, § 15). The Shock Incarceration Program (hereinafter program) is an intensive rehabilitation modality wherein eligible State prison inmates who are accepted into the program undergo a six-month regimen of "rigorous physical...

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