While incarcerated at Clinton Correctional Facility, a fire was set in petitioner's cell by an unidentified inmate and petitioner refused to co-operate in identifying that inmate. The following day, February 17, 1983, the authorities received confidential information indicating petitioner would need protective custody and he was administratively segregated. On February 24, 1983, an administrative hearing was conducted at which it was concluded that petitioner could not safely be returned to the general prison population and he was confined to involuntary protective custody. Petitioner sought a writ of habeas corpus to challenge that determination, charging various due process violations in the procedure surrounding his segregation and asking that he be released from involuntary protection to the general population or, alternatively, that he be transferred to Wallkill, Woodburn or Ossining Correctional Facilities. Special Term's denial of the writ is affirmed. Initially, we note that habeas corpus is available only when the petitioner seeks immediate release from custody ( People ex rel. Douglas v Vincent, 50 N.Y.2d 901, 903), unless that detention complained of is " in excess of that permitted by the judgment or constitutional guarantees" ( People ex rel. Brown v Johnston, 9 N.Y.2d 482, 485). Not only was immediate release not sought here, but administrative segregation was "well within the terms of confinement ordinarily contemplated by a prison sentence" ( Hewitt v Helms, 459 U.S. 460, ___, 103 S Ct 864, 870). Nor did petitioner make any satisfactory showing that the confinement violated his constitutional rights. Moreover, the petition failed to comply with the statutory requirements set forth in CPLR 7002 (subd [c]) ( People ex rel. Henriquez v Jones, 78 A.D.2d 567, app. dsmd. 49 N.Y.2d 915) and no compelling reasons for noncompliance appear in petitioner's papers (see People ex rel. La Rocca v Conboy, 40 A.D.2d 736). Even if we were to convert this to a CPLR article 78 proceeding, we could afford petitioner no relief for the entire record of the administrative proceeding held in this matter is not before us. Judgment affirmed, without costs. Kane, J.P., Mikoll, Yesawich, Jr, Weiss and Levine, JJ., concur.