§ 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 incarcerated individuals confined therein, and of all matters relating to the government, discipline, policing, contracts and […]
§ 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 former guardian, child, brother, sister, husband, wife, grandparent, grandchild, ancestral uncle or ancestral […]
§ 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 the appropriations made therefor, including but not limited to vocational, academic and industrial […]
§ 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 disbursements from accounts established in the name of the […]
§ 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 such bank or banks as may be designated by the comptroller, […]
§ 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 such facility is located in the county of Westchester shall be performed […]
§ 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 counties in which they were tried, the crimes of which they were convicted, the nature and […]
§ 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 subdivision four of section two of this chapter, including a drug treatment […]
§ 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 subdivision four of section two of this chapter or a local correctional […]
§ 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 facility, subject to the direction and supervision of the […]
§ 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 articles which may be brought to the facility by the incarcerated […]
§ 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 comptroller, as hereby directed, it shall be the duty of the comptroller […]
§ 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, on condition of being confined either for life or a term of years […]
§ 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 or her special duties, or police officer without a […]
§ 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 or she committed the offense for which he or she was sentenced, such superintendent […]
§ 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 objective of this program shall be the return of these incarcerated individuals to society with a more wholesome attitude […]
§ 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 the department and the assignment of such incarcerated individual to a program that is most […]
§ 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 institution and set forth in both the English and Spanish language. 2. All incarcerated individuals shall be provided with written […]
§ 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 correctional facility. Such information shall include, but not be limited to, visiting days and hours, length and number of allowable […]
