Martin v. Coughlin

—Appeal from a judgment of the Supreme Court (Harris, J.), entered December 30, 1993 in Albany County, which dismissed petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to CPLR article 78, to review a determination of respondent transferring petitioner to another correctional facility.

We agree with Supreme Court that petitioner had no right to select the facility where he is incarcerated and that the decision to transfer inmates is within respondent’s broad discretionary powers. The record demonstrates a rational basis for the subject transfer due to the fact that petitioner’s incarceration…