—[*1] Noah A. Lazore, Moravia, petitioner pro se.

Andrew M. Cuomo, Attorney General, Albany (Peter H. Schiff of counsel), for respondents.

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 respondent Commissioner of Correctional Services which found petitioner guilty of violating certain prison disciplinary rules.

Petitioner, a prison inmate, was charged in a misbehavior report with smuggling, counterfeiting, violating facility correspondence rules and violating facility package rules. The report was issued after a letter that was sent by petitioner to an outside civilian was intercepted by Immigration & Customs Enforcement (hereinafter ICE).^[FN*] The letter, which was accompanied [*2]by tax stamps cut from the bottom of cigarette packs, set forth instructions on how to use the stamps to tag cigarette packs sold by Native Americans, before ultimately forwarding the cigarettes to petitioner. Following a tier III disciplinary hearing, petitioner was found guilty of all charges. Petitioner thereafter exhausted his administrative remedies and commenced this CPLR article 78 proceeding seeking annulment.

Petitioner argues that his constitutional rights were violated when the intercepted letter was seized from the outside civilian without proper permission. Petitioner, however, lacks standing to challenge the interception of mail sent to another person (see Matter of Kornegay v Goord, 21 AD3d 1236, 1237 [2005]). To the extent not specifically addressed herein, petitioner's remaining contentions have been considered and are rejected.

Cardona, P.J., Mercure, Lahtinen, Kavanagh and Stein, JJ., concur. Adjudged that the determination is confirmed, without costs, and petition dismissed.