Title COR, Correction

§ 1. Short title. This chapter shall be known as the "Correction Law."\n

§ 10. Parole officers. 1. Employees in the department who perform the duties of supervising incarcerated individuals released on community supervision shall be parole officers. 2. No person shall be eligible for the position of parole officer who is under twenty-one years of age…

§ 100. Compact. The interstate corrections compact as set forth in this article is hereby adopted and entered into with all jurisdictions joining therein.

§ 1000. Laws repealed. Of the laws enumerated in the schedule hereto annexed, that portion specified in the last column is hereby repealed.

§ 1001. When to take effect. This chapter shall take effect immediately.

§ 101. Short title; purpose. This article shall be known and may be cited as the "interstate corrections compact". The party states, desiring common action to fully utilize and improve their institutional facilities and provide adequate programs for the confinement, treatment an…

§ 102. Definitions. As used in this compact, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (a) "State" means a state of the United States; the United States of America; a territory or possession of the United States; the District of Columbia; the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. (b…

§ 103. Contracts. (a) Each party state may make one or more contracts with any one or more of the other party states for the confinement of incarcerated individuals on behalf of a sending state in institutions situated within receiving states. Any such contract shall provide for…

§ 104. Procedures and rights. (a) Whenever the duly constituted authorities in a state party to this compact, and which has entered into a contract pursuant to section one hundred three of this article, shall decide that confinement in, or transfer of an incarcerated individual …

§ 105. Acts not reviewable in receiving state; extradition. (a) Any decision of the sending state in respect to any matter over which it retains jurisdiction pursuant to this compact shall be conclusive upon and not reviewable within the receiving state, but if at the time the s…

§ 106. Federal aid. Any state party to this compact may accept federal aid for use in connection with any institution or program, the use of which is or may be affected by this compact or any contract pursuant hereto and any incarcerated individual in a receiving state pursuant …

§ 107. Entry into force. This compact shall enter into force and become effective and binding upon the states so acting when it has been enacted into law by any two states. Thereafter, this compact shall enter into force and become effective and binding as to any other of said s…

§ 108. Withdrawal and termination. This compact shall continue in force and remain binding upon a party state until it shall have enacted a statute repealing the same and providing for the sending of formal written notice of withdrawal from the compact to the appropriate officia…

§ 109. Construction and severability. (a) Nothing contained in this compact shall be construed to abrogate or impair any agreement or other arrangement which a party state may have with a nonparty state for the confinement, rehabilitation or treatment of incarcerated individuals…

§ 11. Identification card program. 1. For purposes of this section, "identification card" shall have the same meaning as defined in section four hundred ninety of the vehicle and traffic law. 2. The commissioner, in consultation with the commissioner of motor vehicles, shall dev…

§ 112. Powers and duties of commissioner relating to correctional facilities and community supervision. 1. The commissioner of corrections and community supervision shall have the superintendence, management and control of the correctional facilities in the department and of the…

§ 113. Absence of incarcerated individual for funeral and deathbed visits authorized. The commissioner may permit any incarcerated individual confined by the department except one awaiting the sentence of death to attend the funeral of his or her father, mother, guardian or form…

§ 114. Rehabilitation programs for women; to be commensurate to those afforded men. It shall be the duty of the commissioner to assure an array of rehabilitation programs are provided among the correctional facilities in which female incarcerated individuals are confined, within…

§ 115. Fiscal accounts and records. 1. The superintendent of each correctional facility shall maintain books of entry and such other records as may be deemed necessary by the commissioner of correction in order to fully account for cash receipts from all sources and all cash dis…

§ 116. incarcerated individuals' funds. The warden or superintendent of each of the institutions within the jurisdiction of the department of corrections and community supervision shall deposit at least once in each week to his or her credit as such warden, or superintendent, in…

§ 117. Estimates of expenses. The superintendent of each correctional facility shall cause to be prepared, at the direction of the commissioner, periodic estimates of expenditures in such form and detail and for such periods as the commissioner may deem appropriate.

§ 118. Custody and supervision of persons in Westchester county correctional facilities. 1. The duty of maintaining the custody and supervision of persons detained or confined in a local correctional facility as defined in subdivision sixteen of section two of this chapter and s…

§ 119. Daily report concerning incarcerated individuals. The superintendent of each correctional facility shall make a daily report to the commissioner of correction, stating the names of all incarcerated individuals received into the facility during the preceding day, the count…

§ 120. Custody and supervision of persons in correctional facilities. 1. Except as provided in subdivisions two, three and four of this section, the duty of maintaining the custody and supervision of persons detained or confined in a correctional facility as defined in subdivisi…

§ 121. Private ownership or operation of correctional facilities. Except as otherwise provided in subdivisions two, three and four of section one hundred twenty of this article or in federal law, the private operation or management of a correctional facility as defined in subdiv…

§ 122. Control of fiscal transactions and recovery of debts. All the fiscal transactions and dealings on account of each correctional facility shall be conducted by and in the name of the superintendent thereof, who shall have control over all matters of finance relating to such…

§ 125. Incarcerated individuals' money, clothing and other property; what to be furnished them on their release. 1. The superintendent, or an employee covered by bond who is designated by the superintendent, of each correctional facility shall take charge of all moneys and other…

§ 126. Punishment of superintendent for neglect of duty. If the superintendent of a correctional facility shall wilfully neglect or refuse to make any weekly or monthly return, estimate or statement, or to transmit any statement and certificate of such deposits to the comptrolle…

§ 130. Custody of incarcerated individual sentenced to death and commuted by governor. The commissioner shall designate appropriate correctional facilities to receive, on the order of the governor, any person convicted of any crime punishable by death, or who shall be pardoned, …

§ 132. Retaking of an escaped incarcerated individual. If an incarcerated individual escapes from a correctional facility, he or she may be arrested and returned by the superintendent or by an officer or employee of the department or by any peace officer, acting pursuant to his …

§ 133. Superintendent to report concerning incarcerated individual believed mentally ill when crime was committed. Whenever the superintendent of a correctional facility shall have reason to believe that any incarcerated individual in the facility was mentally ill at the time he…

§ 134. Religious dietary requirements. 1. The commissary at each correctional facility shall provide food options for purchase through the facility commissary that satisfy the requirements of religious dietary needs of the incarcerated individuals housed at the facility, includi…

§ 135. New York state department of corrections and community supervision body-worn cameras program. 1. There is hereby created within the department a body-worn cameras program. The purpose of such program is to increase accountability and evidence for departmental and law enfo…

§ 135-a. Fixed camera coverage. 1. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) "Covered facility" means any institution or correctional facility operated by the department of corrections and community supervision. (b)…

§ 136. Correctional education. 1. The objective of correctional education in its broadest sense should be the socialization of the incarcerated individuals through varied impressional and expressional activities, with emphasis on individual incarcerated individual needs. The obj…

§ 137. Program of treatment, control, discipline at correctional facilities. 1. The commissioner shall establish program and classification procedures designed to assure the complete study of the background and condition of each incarcerated individual in the care or custody of …

§ 138. Institutional rules and regulations for incarcerated individuals at all correctional facilities. 1. All institutional rules and regulations defining and prohibiting incarcerated individuals misconduct shall be published and posted in prominent locations within the institu…

§ 138-a. Notification of visitation policies. The commissioner of the department of corrections and community supervision shall establish and maintain on its public website information concerning specific visitation rules, regulations, policies and procedures for each correction…

§ 138-b. Permitted entry by peer support advocates. Peer support advocates who are certified or licensed by a state agency, or a state authorized entity including the New York certification board, or a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association, and are participatin…

§ 139. Grievance procedures. 1. The commissioner shall establish, in each correctional institution under his or her jurisdiction, grievance resolution committees to resolve grievances of persons within such correctional institution. Such grievance resolution committees shall con…

§ 140. Provision for routine medical, dental and mental health services and treatment. 1. Where an incarcerated individual who is not yet eighteen years of age has been committed or transferred to the custody of the department and no medical consent has been obtained prior to co…

§ 141. Contagious disease in facility. In case any pestilence or contagious disease shall break out among the incarcerated individuals in any of the correctional facilities, or in the vicinity of such facilities, the commissioner of correction may cause the incarcerated individu…

§ 142. Fire in facility. Whenever by reason of any correctional facility, or any building contiguous to such facility, being on fire, there shall be reason to apprehend that the incarcerated individuals may be injured or endangered by such fire, or may escape, it shall be the du…

§ 143. Custody of persons convicted of crimes against the United States. The commissioner is authorized to enter into agreements for the care and custody of persons convicted and sentenced to imprisonment by the United States courts in this state. Persons may be confined in corr…

§ 146. Persons authorized to visit correctional facilities. 1. The following persons shall be authorized to visit at pleasure all correctional facilities: The governor and lieutenant-governor, commissioner of general services, secretary of state, comptroller and attorney-general…

§ 147. Noncitizen incarcerated individuals of correctional facilities. The commissioner shall within three months after admission of a noncitizen incarcerated individual to a correctional facility cause an investigation to be made of the record and past history of such noncitize…

§ 148. Psychiatric and diagnostic clinics. The commissioner of corrections and community supervision is hereby authorized and directed to assist and cooperate with the commissioner of mental health in the establishment and conduct of such psychiatric and diagnostic clinics in th…

§ 149. Released incarcerated individuals; notification to sheriff, police, and district attorney. In the case of any incarcerated individual convicted of a felony, it shall be the duty of the department at least forty-eight hours prior to the release of any such incarcerated ind…

§ 15-b. Education. The present director of vocational education shall be the director of education with the powers and duties of the director of education and hereafter shall be appointed by the commissioner. The director of education, at any time appointed, shall be a person wh…

§ 15-c. Acceptance of grants or gifts. The commissioner, with the approval of the governor, may accept as agent of the state any grant, including federal grants, or any gift for any of the purposes of this article. Any moneys so received may be expended by the department to deve…