MATTER OF LA FRANCE v. WARD


64 A.D.2d 989 (1978)

In the Matter of Douglas La France, Appellant, v. Benjamin Ward, as Commissioner of State Department of Correctional Services, et al., Respondents

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

September 14, 1978


Petitioner, an inmate at the Clinton Correctional Facility, commenced this article 78 proceeding claiming that he was transferred to the general population of the facility without having had the benefit of any test or evaluations pertaining to his classification and that he had made two requests to a senior counselor to review his records under the Freedom of Information Act which went unanswered. Section 139 of the Correction Law provides for procedures through which persons...

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