2006 New York Code - Prison labor; contract system abolished.

 
    §  24.  The  legislature shall, by law, provide for the occupation and
  employment  of  prisoners  sentenced  to  the  several  state   prisons,
  penitentiaries,  jails  and reformatories in the state; and no person in
  any such prison, penitentiary, jail or reformatory, shall be required or
  allowed to work, while under sentence thereto, at any trade, industry or
  occupation, wherein or whereby his or her work, or the product or profit
  of his or her work, shall be farmed out, contracted, given  or  sold  to
  any  person, firm, association or corporation. This section shall not be
  construed to prevent the legislature from providing  that  convicts  may
  work  for,  and  that the products of their labor may be disposed of to,
  the state or any political division thereof, or for  or  to  any  public
  institution  owned  or  managed  and  controlled  by  the  state, or any
  political division thereof.