Opinion
July 11, 1986
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Orleans County, Miles, J.
Present — Dillon, P.J., Callahan, Denman, Green and Pine, JJ.
Order unanimously reversed, on the law, and petition dismissed. Memorandum: Petitioner, while an inmate at the Albion Correctional Facility, was terminated from the work-release program for failing to report to her designated furlough residence and failing to observe her assigned curfew. Special Term erred in directing respondents to hold a new temporary release revocation hearing to allow petitioner to call witnesses on her behalf. The record reveals that petitioner failed to request any witnesses at the temporary release revocation hearing, or at the Superintendent's hearing which preceded it (see, 7 NYCRR 254.5 [a]; cf. 7 NYCRR 1904.2 [b]) and thereby waived her claim (see, Matter of Geddes v Wilmot, 111 A.D.2d 474, 475; Matter of Guzman v Coughlin, 90 A.D.2d 666; Matter of Hicks v LeFevre, 59 A.D.2d 423, 425-426). Accordingly, we need not reach petitioner's constitutional claims. We note, however, that participation in a temporary release program is a privilege (Correction Law § 855), and that the scope of judicial review is limited to whether respondents violated any statutory requirement or whether respondents' determination was affected by irrationality bordering on impropriety; we find neither is the case here (see, Matter of Gonzalez v Wilson, 106 A.D.2d 386).