State Division of Human Rights v. County of Monroe

—Petition granted, without costs, order of appeal board reversed and determination of State division reinstated. Memorandum: The work release program is authorized by statute and it is entirely optional with the petitioners (Correction Law, § 870 et seq.). The election to *948implement this program does not make petitioners an employment agency anymore than bringing entertainers to prisons makes prisons places of public amusement. The relationship between the prisoner and the jailer remains just that, the work release program notwithstanding, and it is a relationship in which the jailers’ concern…