People ex rel. Baker v. Narcotic Addiction Control Commission

.Charles G-. Tierney, J.

On this hearing on their writs of hafbeas corpus, petitioners, 11 in number, all of whom were committed, after conviction of a misdemeanor, to the custody of the Narcotic Addiction Control Commission under section 208 of the Mental Hygiene Law, seek to sustain their writs on the grounds that the commission has failed to provide any rehabilitative treatment whatever for their narcotics addiction and that such failure renders their confinement unlawful.

Specifically, each petitioner claims he is confined at Rikers Island Penitentiary with a cell mate serving a prison…