Defendant, at the time an inmate at Elmira Correctional Facility, was convicted of promoting prison contraband in the first degree arising from his possession of a sharpened metal shank. On this appeal, he contends that he could not be convicted of this crime because the Penal Law defines contraband as "any article or thing which a person confined in a detention facility is prohibited from obtaining or possessing by statute, rule, regulation...
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