Opinion
94757.
Decided and Entered: June 17, 2004.
Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Kavanagh, J.), entered October 22, 2003 in Ulster County, which, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, dismissed the petition.
David Burr, Wallkill, appellant pro se.
Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General, Albany (Martin A. Hotvet of counsel), for respondent.
Before: Spain, J.P., Carpinello, Rose, Lahtinen and Kane, JJ.
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
Petitioner, an inmate at a maximum security correctional facility, was placed in protective custody at his request. Based upon his protective custody status, petitioner was submitted for a transfer. The transfer was denied due to the vicious nature of the crime for which he was convicted — which involved stabbing the murder victim 168 times. Supreme Court subsequently dismissed petitioner's CPLR article 78 proceeding challenging the denial of his transfer and this appeal ensued.
Notwithstanding petitioner's assertion that, in accordance with 7 NYCRR part 330, he should be placed in a security facility with a lower classification and closer to his family in order to facilitate his transition back into the general population, it is well settled that an inmate has no right to select the correctional facility at which he or she will be incarcerated (see Matter of Greg v. Scully, 108 A.D.2d 748, 749, lv denied 65 N.Y.2d 601). Moreover, petitioner has demonstrated no circumstances warranting this Court's interference with respondent's broad discretion regarding petitioner's transfer to another facility regardless of his protective custody status (see Matter of Partee v. Bennett, 253 A.D.2d 950; Matter of Inman v. Coughlin, 131 A.D.2d 900).
Spain, J.P., Carpinello, Rose, Lahtinen and Kane, JJ., concur.
ORDERED that the judgment is affirmed, without costs.