ALBANY — The state Commission on Judicial Conduct has ruled that an upstate Family Court judge should be removed for jailing people while denying them such fundamental rights as a hearing and attorney.

In a decision released yesterday, the commission said that, in four cases, Saratoga County Judge Gilbert Abramson sent people to jail for periods ranging from 21 to 268 days after failing to comply with constitutional and statutory mandates.

Abramson, who lost a primary election, resigned last month.

His lawyer, Robert Roche, said that the errors were essentially technical, that nobody lost substantive rights and that a couple of people voluntarily went to jail.

Roche said the ruling, which would keep Abramson from future office, would be challenged at the Court of Appeals.