Broome County v. State

OPINION OF THE COURT

Robert W. Coutant, J.

In this CPLR article 78 proceeding, petitioners seek to have the court direct the respondents to transport parole violators* being held in county jails to State facilities, and to declare *694invalid a document generated by the Division of Parole entitled "Warrant for return of paroled or conditionally released prisoner to a correctional facility”, which directs the Sheriff to transport those prisoners. Petitioners argue generally that the Division of Parole does not have any authority under the law to issue the warrants referred to, that the task of…