Judgment unanimously reversed and petition dismissed.
Memorandum:
In this CPLR article 78 proceeding challenging petitioner's removal from a prison job assignment without a disciplinary hearing, Special Term correctly held that such a hearing was not required. Petitioner had no statutory guarantee that he would keep his kitchen job and prison officials could remove him from that assignment at any time without a hearing (Matter of Duval v Smith,
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