2013 New York Consolidated Laws
COR - Correction
Article 20 - (500 - 529) LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES
500-D - Food and labor.

 
    §  500-d.  Food and labor. (1) Prisoners detained for trial, and those
  under sentence, shall be provided with a sufficient  quantity  of  plain
  but  wholesome  food,  at the expense of the county; such foods shall be
  purchased in the manner and  subject  to  the  regulations  provided  in
  section four hundred eight of the county law; but prisoners detained for
  trial  may, at their own expense, and under the direction of the keeper,
  be supplied with any other proper articles of food.
    (2) Such keeper shall cause each prisoner committed to  his  jail  for
  imprisonment  under  sentence,  to  be constantly employed at hard labor
  when practicable,  during  every  day,  except  Sunday  but  the  Sunday
  exception   shall   not   apply  where  a  prisoner  under  sentence  of
  intermittent imprisonment serves less than the five  preceding  days  in
  the  jail  and  the  keeper  has  adopted an employment program designed
  especially for intermittent imprisonment, and the board  of  supervisors
  of  the  county, or judge of the county, may prescribe the kind of labor
  at which such prisoner shall be employed; and the keeper shall  account,
  at  least annually, with the board of supervisors of the county, for the
  proceeds of such labor.
    (3) Such keeper may, with the consent of the board of  supervisors  of
  the  county,  or  the county judge, from time to time, cause such of the
  convicts under his charge as are capable of hard labor, to  be  employed
  outside  of  the  jail in the same, or in an adjoining county, upon such
  terms as may be agreed upon between the keepers  and  the  officers,  or
  persons, under whose direction such convicts shall be placed, subject to
  such  regulations  as the board or judge may prescribe; and the board of
  supervisors of the several counties are authorized  to  employ  convicts
  under  sentence  to  confinement  in  the  county jails, in building and
  repairing penal institutions of the county and in building and repairing
  the highways in their respective counties or in preparing the  materials
  for  such  highways  for sale to and for the use of the state, counties,
  towns, villages or cities, and in cutting wood and performing other work
  which is commonly carried on at a prison camp, and  to  make  rules  and
  regulations  for their employment; and the said board of supervisors are
  hereby authorized to cause money  to  be  raised  by  taxation  for  the
  purpose of furnishing materials and carrying this provision into effect;
  and  the courts of this state are hereby authorized to sentence convicts
  committed to detention in the county jails to such hard labor as may  be
  provided  for them by the boards of supervisors. This section as amended
  shall not affect a county wholly included within a city. Notwithstanding
  any other provision of law, an inmate may  be  permitted  to  leave  the
  institution  under  guard  to  voluntarily  perform work for a nonprofit
  organization pursuant to this subdivision. As used in this section,  the
  term "nonprofit organization" means an organization operated exclusively
  for  religious,  charitable, or educational purposes, no part of the net
  earnings of which inures to the benefit of any  private  shareholder  or
  individual.