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\nduties of supervising incarcerated individuals released on community\nsupervision shall be parole officers.\n 2. No person shall be eligible for the position of parole officer who\nis under twenty-one years o…

§ 100. Compact. The interstate corrections compact as set forth in\nthis article is hereby adopted and entered into with all jurisdictions\njoining therein.\n

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 Laws repealed. Of the laws enumerated in the schedule hereto\nannexed, that portion specified in the last column is hereby repealed.\n

§ 1001. When to take effect. This chapter shall take effect\nimmediately.\n

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

§ 102. Definitions. As used in this compact, unless the context\nclearly requires otherwise:\n (a) "State" means a state of the United States; the United States of\nAmerica; a territory or possession of the United States; the District of\nColumbia; the Commonwealth of Puerto Ric…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

§ 114. Rehabilitation programs for women; to be commensurate to those\nafforded men. It shall be the duty of the commissioner to assure an\narray of rehabilitation programs are provided among the correctional\nfacilities in which female incarcerated individuals are confined, wit…

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

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

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

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

§ 119. Daily report concerning incarcerated individuals. The\nsuperintendent of each correctional facility shall make a daily report\nto the commissioner of correction, stating the names of all incarcerated\nindividuals received into the facility during the preceding day, the\nc…

§ 120. Custody and supervision of persons in correctional facilities.\n1. Except as provided in subdivisions two, three and four of this\nsection, the duty of maintaining the custody and supervision of persons\ndetained or confined in a correctional facility as defined in\nsubdi…

§ 121. Private ownership or operation of correctional facilities.\nExcept as otherwise provided in subdivisions two, three and four of\nsection one hundred twenty of this article or in federal law, the\nprivate operation or management of a correctional facility as defined in\nsu…

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

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

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

§ 130. Custody of incarcerated individual sentenced to death and\ncommuted by governor. The commissioner shall designate appropriate\ncorrectional facilities to receive, on the order of the governor, any\nperson convicted of any crime punishable by death, or who shall be\npardon…

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

§ 133. Superintendent to report concerning incarcerated individual\nbelieved mentally ill when crime was committed. Whenever the\nsuperintendent of a correctional facility shall have reason to believe\nthat any incarcerated individual in the facility was mentally ill at the\ntim…

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

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

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

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

§ 137. Program of treatment, control, discipline at correctional\nfacilities. 1. The commissioner shall establish program and\nclassification procedures designed to assure the complete study of the\nbackground and condition of each incarcerated individual in the care or\ncustody…

§ 138. Institutional rules and regulations for incarcerated\nindividuals at all correctional facilities. 1. All institutional rules\nand regulations defining and prohibiting incarcerated individuals\nmisconduct shall be published and posted in prominent locations within\nthe ins…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

§ 146. Persons authorized to visit correctional facilities. 1. The\nfollowing persons shall be authorized to visit at pleasure all\ncorrectional facilities: The governor and lieutenant-governor,\ncommissioner of general services, secretary of state, comptroller and\nattorney-gen…

§ 147. Noncitizen incarcerated individuals of correctional facilities.\nThe commissioner shall within three months after admission of a\nnoncitizen incarcerated individual to a correctional facility cause an\ninvestigation to be made of the record and past history of such\nnonci…

§ 148. Psychiatric and diagnostic clinics. The commissioner of\ncorrections and community supervision is hereby authorized and directed\nto assist and cooperate with the commissioner of mental health in the\nestablishment and conduct of such psychiatric and diagnostic clinics in…

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

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

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