Williams v. State

Judgment unanimously affirmed without costs. Memorandum: Claimant filed this claim seeking damages for injuries he sustained when attacked by a fellow inmate at Auburn Correctional Facility. The claim asserts that the State of New York was negligent in failing to place him in protective custody after he was involved in an altercation with that same inmate approximately a month earlier. The Court of Claims determined that, after the prior incident, claimant executed a form voluntarily waiving protective custody and that claimant failed to establish that the State was negligent in failing to…