Rivera v. New York City Department of Correction

OPINION OF THE COURT

Richard Lee Price, J.

*537Petitioner moves this court pursuant to CPLR article 78 for vacatur of an administrative determination revoking his contact visitation privileges claiming that it was imposed without due process. Petitioner contends that the loss of such visitation, which confines the inmate to a booth precluding any physical contact with visitors via a separation barrier, is a disciplinary sanction related to his having failed a urine drug test. Petitioner further claims that the respondent denied him the right to procedural due process by failing to provide him with…