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N.Y. Correction Law § 509 Absence of incarcerated individual for funeral and deathbed visits
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§ 509. Absence of incarcerated individual for funeral and deathbed visits. The sheriff of a local correctional facility or his or her designee may permit any incarcerated individual confined in his or her local correctional facility to attend the funeral of his or her father, mo…
N.Y. Correction Law § 510 Voting upon release
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§ 510. Voting upon release. 1. Prior to the release from a local correctional facility of any person convicted of a felony the chief administrative officer shall notify such person verbally and in writing that his or her voting rights will be restored upon release and provide su…
N.Y. Correction Law § 514 Confinement of civil prisoner
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§ 514. Confinement of civil prisoner. A civil prisoner, committed to jail upon process for contempt, or committed for misconduct in a case prescribed by law, must be actually confined and detained within the jail, until he is discharged by due course of law, or is removed to ano…
N.Y. Correction Law § 523 Revocation of designation of jail
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§ 523. Revocation of designation of jail. When a jail is erected for the county, for whose use the designation pursuant to section five hundred and four of this chapter was made, or its jail is rendered fit and safe for the confinement of prisoners, or the reason for the designa…
N.Y. Correction Law § 524 Manner and effect of revocation
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§ 524. Manner and effect of revocation. The county clerk must immediately serve a copy of the revocation, duly certified by him under his official seal, upon the sheriff of the same county; who must remove the civil and criminal prisoners belonging to his custody, and confined w…
N.Y. Correction Law § 529 Term of imprisonment of a recaptured prisoner
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§ 529. Term of imprisonment of a recaptured prisoner. A prisoner arrested or committed in a civil action or proceeding, who escapes from custody, upon his voluntary return or recapture, shall be imprisoned for a term equal to that portion of his original term of imprisonment whi…
N.Y. Correction Law § 600 Certain correctional officers to administer oaths
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§ 600. Certain correctional officers to administer oaths. The commissioner of correction and the deputy and assistant commissioners of correction may administer oaths and take affidavits in all matters relating to the affairs of the state prisons. The warden, principal keeper, c…
N.Y. Correction Law § 600-A Jail time records and certificates
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§ 600-a. Jail time records and certificates. A record shall be kept by the sheriff, or in counties within the city of New York by the commissioner of correction of such city, of all jail time to which the defendant is entitled under subdivision three of section 70.30 of the pena…
N.Y. Correction Law § 601 Delivery of commitment with incarcerated individual; payment of fees for transportation
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§ 601. Delivery of commitment with incarcerated individual; payment of fees for transportation. * (a) Whenever an incarcerated individual shall be delivered to the superintendent of a state correctional facility pursuant to an indeterminate or determinate sentence, the officer s…
N.Y. Correction Law § 601-A Return of persons erroneously sentenced for the purpose of resentence
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§ 601-a. Return of persons erroneously sentenced for the purpose of resentence. Whenever it shall appear to the satisfaction of the department based on facts submitted on behalf of a person sentenced and confined in a state prison, that any such person has been erroneously sente…
N.Y. Correction Law § 601-B Coram nobis prisoners; reimbursement for costs
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§ 601-b. Coram nobis prisoners; reimbursement for costs. Whenever a prisoner is transferred from a state penal institution to a county jail or penitentiary, or a city prison operated by a city having a population of one million or more inhabitants, to await judicial review of hi…
N.Y. Correction Law § 601-C Felony prisoners; reimbursement for costs
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§ 601-c. Felony prisoners; reimbursement for costs. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in any case where a person has been convicted of a felony and a sentence has been pronounced which requires that he or she be committed to the custody of the commissioner, if such per…
N.Y. Correction Law § 601-D Post-release supervision; certain cases
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§ 601-d. Post-release supervision; certain cases. This section shall apply only to incarcerated individuals in the custody of the commissioner, and releasees under the supervision of the department, upon whom a determinate sentence was imposed between September first, nineteen h…
N.Y. Correction Law § 602 Expenses of sheriff for transporting prisoners
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§ 602. Expenses of sheriff for transporting prisoners. For conveying a prisoner or prisoners to a state prison from the county prison, the sheriff or person having charge of the same shall be reimbursed for the amount of expenses actually and necessarily incurred by him for rail…
N.Y. Correction Law § 603 Rendering accounts for conveying of prisoners
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§ 603. Rendering accounts for conveying of prisoners. On the conveying of any such prisoners to the warden of such prison and upon returning home, the sheriff or other person having charge of the same, shall make and render to the warden of the prison, an account showing the dis…
N.Y. Correction Law § 604 Payment of accounts for transporting prisoners
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§ 604. Payment of accounts for transporting prisoners. The account, certified and attested as provided in the preceding section, shall be subject to audit by the comptroller, and be paid out of the treasury, unless otherwise provided.
N.Y. Correction Law § 605 Prisoners sentenced at one session of court to be transported at same time
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§ 605. Prisoners sentenced at one session of court to be transported at same time. All the prisoners who shall be sentenced to imprisonment in the same state prison, at one session of a criminal court, shall be transported at the same time, unless said court shall expressly dire…
N.Y. Correction Law § 605-A Transportation of female incarcerated individuals
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§ 605-a. Transportation of female incarcerated individuals. Whenever any female incarcerated individual is conveyed to an institution under the jurisdiction of the state department of corrections and community supervision pursuant to sentence or commitment, such female incarcera…
N.Y. Correction Law § 606 Payment of costs for prosecution of incarcerated individuals
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§ 606. Payment of costs for prosecution of incarcerated individuals. 1. When an incarcerated individual of an institution of the department is alleged to have committed an offense while an incarcerated individual of such institution, the state shall pay all reasonable costs for …
N.Y. Correction Law § 607 Prohibition of double-bunked housing
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§ 607. Prohibition of double-bunked housing. 1. For purposes of this section "double-bunked housing" shall mean the practice of incarcerated individual housing where bunk beds are used in a dormitory setting, with incarcerated individuals residing in an open space and sleeping o…
N.Y. Correction Law § 610 Freedom of worship
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§ 610. Freedom of worship. 1. All persons who may have been or may hereafter be committed to or taken charge of by any of the institutions mentioned in this section, are hereby declared to be and entitled to the free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship, wi…
N.Y. Correction Law § 611 Births to incarcerated individuals of correctional institutions and care of children of incarcerated individuals of correctional institut...
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§ 611. Births to incarcerated individuals of correctional institutions and care of children of incarcerated individuals of correctional institutions. 1. (a) If a woman confined in any institution or local correctional facility be pregnant and about to give birth to a child, the …
N.Y. Correction Law § 611-A Commitments to county or regional correctional institutions
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§ 611-a. Commitments to county or regional correctional institutions. 1. Any commitment to a county or regional correctional institution pursuant to subdivision two of section 70.20 of the penal law shall be deemed a commitment to the county jail, workhouse or penitentiary, or t…
N.Y. Correction Law § 612 United States prisoners
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§ 612. United States prisoners. 1. A sheriff must receive into his or her jail and keep a prisoner, committed to the same, by virtue of civil process issued by a court of record, instituted under the authority of the United States, until he or she is discharged by the due course…
N.Y. Correction Law § 613 Conveyance of prisoner after arrest
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§ 613. Conveyance of prisoner after arrest. A sheriff or other officer, who has lawfully arrested a civil prisoner, may convey his prisoner through one or more other counties, in the ordinary route of travel, from the place where the prisoner was arrested, to the place where he …
N.Y. Correction Law § 614 Care and support of civil prisoner
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§ 614. Care and support of civil prisoner. A person arrested, by virtue of an order of arrest, in an action or special proceeding brought in a court of record; or of an execution issued upon a judgment rendered in a court of record; or surrendered in exoneration of his bail; mus…
N.Y. Correction Law § 618 Duties of state correctional institutions, penitentiaries, county jails and reformatories
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§ 618. Duties of state correctional institutions, penitentiaries, county jails and reformatories. 1. It shall also be the duty of the commissioner to continue to make or have impressions made of the finger and thumbprints of all incarcerated individuals in any of the institution…
N.Y. Correction Law § 619 Cooperation with authorized agencies of the department of social services
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§ 619. Cooperation with authorized agencies of the department of social services. It shall be the duty of an official of any institution under the jurisdiction of the commissioner of corrections and community supervision to cooperate with an authorized agency of the department o…
N.Y. Correction Law § 620 Service of papers in civil judicial proceedings upon a prisoner
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§ 620. Service of papers in civil judicial proceedings upon a prisoner. An officer to whom a paper in a civil judicial proceeding is delivered, in compliance with the requirements for service of the paper upon a prisoner in his custody, shall note thereon the date and time of it…
N.Y. Correction Law § 621 Interstate cooperation with law enforcement officers and agencies of other states and the federal government
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§ 621. Interstate cooperation with law enforcement officers and agencies of other states and the federal government. 1. All law enforcement officers and agencies of this state and its subdivisions, including the division of criminal justice services, are hereby authorized to coo…
N.Y. Correction Law § 622 Sex offender treatment program
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§ 622. Sex offender treatment program. 1. The department shall make available a sex offender treatment program for those incarcerated individuals who are serving sentences for felony sex offenses, or for other offenses defined in subdivision (p) of section 10.03 of the mental hy…
N.Y. Correction Law § 623 Incarcerated individual telephone services
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§ 623. Incarcerated individual telephone services. 1. Telephone services contracts for incarcerated individuals in state correctional facilities shall be subject to the procurement provisions as set forth in article eleven of the state finance law provided, however, that when de…
N.Y. Correction Law § 624 Next of kin; death of incarcerated individual
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§ 624. Next of kin; death of incarcerated individual. 1. (a) The department shall promptly notify the next of kin and any other person designated as the representative of any incarcerated individual whose death takes place during custody. (b) The department shall promptly notify…
N.Y. Correction Law § 625 Menstrual products
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§ 625. Menstrual products. Menstrual products, including, but not limited to, pads, tampons and panty liners, shall be provided at no cost to individuals housed in state and local correctional facilities used for the general confinement of incarcerated individuals and in any oth…
N.Y. Correction Law § 626 Medication assisted treatment in correctional facilities
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§ 626. Medication assisted treatment in correctional facilities. 1. For purposes of this section "medication assisted treatment" means treatment of chemical dependence or abuse and concomitant conditions with medications requiring a prescription or order from an authorized presc…
N.Y. Correction Law § 627 Breast cancer screening and diagnostic testing
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§ 627. Breast cancer screening and diagnostic testing. Breast cancer screening and diagnostic testing shall be offered in accordance with nationally recognized clinical practice guidelines for the detection of breast cancer unless otherwise recommended by a physician at no cost …
N.Y. Correction Law § 630 Applicability
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* § 630. Applicability. This article shall be applicable only to prisoners sentenced to institutions operated by a department of correction in cities having a population of one million or more or by a county which elects to have this article apply thereto. * NB Repealed Septembe…
N.Y. Correction Law § 631 Definitions
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* § 631. Definitions. As used in this article the following terms shall have the following meanings: 1. "Institution" means any institution under the jurisdiction of the commissioner of correction in any city having a population of one million or more or of a county which elects…
N.Y. Correction Law § 632 Establishment of a furlough program
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* § 632. Establishment of a furlough program. The commissioner shall designate, in the rules and regulations of the department; appropriate employees or an appropriate unit of the department, to be responsible for (i) securing education, on-the-job training and employment opport…
N.Y. Correction Law § 633 Procedure for furlough release of eligible incarcerated individuals
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* § 633. Procedure for furlough release of eligible incarcerated individuals. 1. A person confined in a city prison or a county jail and penitentiaries of a county which elects to have this article apply thereto who is, or who within thirty days will become, an eligible incarcer…
N.Y. Correction Law § 634 Conduct of incarcerated individuals participating in furlough program
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* § 634. Conduct of incarcerated individuals participating in furlough program. 1. An incarcerated individual who is permitted to leave the premises of an institution to participate in a furlough program shall have on his or her person a copy of the memorandum of that program as…
N.Y. Correction Law § 650 Warrant for execution of death sentence
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§ 650. Warrant for execution of death sentence. 1. When a person is sentenced to the punishment of death, the justice or judge who presided at the sentencing proceeding, or if that justice or judge is unavailable for any reason, then any justice of the supreme court of the depar…
N.Y. Correction Law § 651 Time of execution
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§ 651. Time of execution. The week of execution appointed in the warrant shall be not less than thirty days and not more than sixty days after the issuance of the warrant. The date of execution within said week shall be left to the discretion of the commissioner, but the date an…
N.Y. Correction Law § 652 Delivery of warrant and confinement
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§ 652. Delivery of warrant and confinement. 1. Within ten days after the issuance of a warrant as provided in section six hundred fifty of this article, the sheriff or the commissioner of correction, if within the city of New York or county of Westchester, must deliver the warra…
N.Y. Correction Law § 653 Transmittal of record to the governor
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§ 653. Transmittal of record to the governor. Within a reasonable time following the issuance of the warrant as provided in section six hundred fifty of this article, the clerk of the court in the county in which the person was sentenced to death shall transmit to the governor a…
N.Y. Correction Law § 654 Governor may consult
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§ 654. Governor may consult. The governor is authorized to request the opinion of the attorney general, the district attorney, and the convicted person's counsel, or any of them, as to whether the execution of the person should be reprieved or suspended.
N.Y. Correction Law § 655 Governor only to reprieve
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§ 655. Governor only to reprieve. No judge, court, or officer, other than the governor, can reprieve the execution of a person sentenced to death. This section does not apply to a stay authorized by law.
N.Y. Correction Law § 656 Proceeding when person under sentence of death may be incompetent
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§ 656. Proceeding when person under sentence of death may be incompetent. 1. The state may not execute an inmate who is incompetent. An inmate is "incompetent" when, as a result of mental disease or defect, he lacks the mental capacity to understand the nature and effect of the …
N.Y. Correction Law § 657 Proceeding when person under sentence of death is pregnant
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§ 657. Proceeding when person under sentence of death is pregnant. 1. A sentence of death may not be carried out upon a woman while she is pregnant. 2. When the superintendent of the correctional facility where the inmate is confined is informed that reasonable grounds exist tha…
N.Y. Correction Law § 658 Death penalty inflicted by lethal injection
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§ 658. Death penalty inflicted by lethal injection. The punishment of death shall be inflicted by lethal injection; that is, by the intravenous injection of a substance or substances in a lethal quantity into the body of a person convicted until such person is dead.