New York · statute · N.Y. Correction Law · 371 active provisions
CHAPTER 243 AN ACT to amend the prison law to conform to the state departments law, generally, and repealing certain provisions of article fifteen of the state departments law and articles twelve and twelve-a of the state charities law as amended and section one hundred and fifty-four of the state finance law Became a…
ARTICLE 1 SHORT TITLE; DEFINITIONS Section 1. Short title. 2. Definitions.
§ 1. Short title. This chapter shall be known as the "Correction Law."
§ 2. Definitions. When used in this chapter, unless otherwise expressly stated or the context or subject matter otherwise requires, the following terms have the following meanings: 1. "Department" means the state department of corrections and community supervision; 2. "Commissioner" means the state commissioner of corr…
ARTICLE 2 DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION Section 5. Department of corrections and community supervision; commissioner. 7. Organization of department of corrections and community supervision; officers and employees; delegation by commissioner. 8. Testing of certain applicants for employment. 9. Acce…
§ 5. Department of corrections and community supervision; commissioner. 1. There shall be in the state government a department of corrections and community supervision. The head of the department shall be the commissioner of corrections and community supervision, who shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the…
§ 7. Organization of department of corrections and community supervision; officers and employees; delegation by commissioner. 1. The commissioner of corrections and community supervision may, from time to time, create, abolish, transfer and consolidate divisions, bureaus and other units within the department not expres…
* § 8. Testing of certain applicants for employment. 1. Any applicant for employment with the department as a correction officer at a facility of the department, shall be tested in accordance with the requirements of this section. 2. The department is hereby authorized to conduct, or to enter into agreements necessary…
§ 9. Access to information of incarcerated individuals via the internet. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any information relating to the conviction of a person that is posted on a website maintained by or for the department, under article six of the public officers law, may be posted on such websi…
§ 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 or who does not possess a baccalaureate…
§ 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 develop a program that would allow incarcera…
§ 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 whose education, training and experience sh…
§ 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 develop and promote programs for the study an…
§ 16. Expense of autopsy; state charge. 1. The reasonable expense of any inquiry, autopsy, examination or report prepared thereon conducted by a coroner, coroner's physician or medical examiner as required by law with respect to any death occurring to an incarcerated individual of an institution operated by the departm…
§ 17. Notice to emergency contacts. Within twenty-four hours of the attempted suicide or hospitalization of an incarcerated individual or any other individual occurring in the custody of the department, the department shall notify the emergency contacts of such incarcerated individual or other such individual.
§ 18. Superintendents of correctional facilities. 1. Each correctional facility shall have a superintendent who shall be appointed by the commissioner. Each such superintendent shall be in the non-competitive-confidential class but shall be appointed from employees of the department who have at least three years of exp…
§ 19. Salary and emoluments of superintendents. 1. This section shall apply to each superintendent of a correctional facility appointed on or after August ninth, nineteen hundred seventy-five and any superintendent heretofore appointed who elects to be covered by the provisions thereof by filing such election with the…
§ 20. Library. A library shall be provided in the department containing the leading books on parole, probation and other correctional activities, together with reports and other documents on correlated topics of criminology and social work.
§ 21. Acquisition of real property by purchase and acquisition. 1. The commissioner, when an appropriation therefor has been made by the legislature, may acquire any real property which he may deem necessary for the purposes of the department by purchase or pursuant to the eminent domain procedure law. Title to any suc…
§ 22. Institution officers not to be interested in institution contracts. A commissioner of correction, superintendent or other officer or employee, employed at any of the institutions in the department who: 1. Shall be directly or indirectly interested in any contract, purchase or sale, for, by, or on account of such…
§ 22-a. Qualification for employment as a correction officer. No person, on or after the effective date of this section, may be appointed to the position of a correction officer in any institution in the department who has been convicted of a felony or of any offense in any other jurisdiction which if committed in this…
§ 22-b. Disclosure of video footage related to the death of incarcerated individuals involving correction officers or peace officers employed by the department. 1. Definition. As used in this section the term "video footage" shall include, but not be limited to, recordings from fixed or stationary cameras, body-worn ca…
§ 23. Transfer of incarcerated individuals from one correctional facility to another; treatment in outside hospitals. 1. The commissioner shall have the power to transfer incarcerated individuals from one correctional facility to another. Whenever the transfer of incarcerated individuals from one correctional facility…
§ 24. Civil actions against department personnel. 1. No civil action shall be brought in any court of the state, except by the attorney general on behalf of the state, against any officer or employee of the department, which for purposes of this section shall include members of the state board of parole, in his or her…
§ 24-a. Actions against persons rendering health care services at the request of the department; defense and indemnification. The provisions of section seventeen of the public officers law shall apply to any person holding a license to practice a profession pursuant to article one hundred thirty-one, one hundred thirty…