2019 New York Laws
COR - Correction
Article 7 - Labor in Correctional Institutions
183 - Classification of Industries; Report Concerning Industries.

§  183. Classification of industries; report concerning industries. 1.
It shall be the duty  of  the  commissioner  to  distribute,  among  the
correctional   institutions   under  his  jurisdiction,  the  labor  and
industries assigned to said institutions, due regard being  had  to  the
location  and  convenience of the prisons, and of the other institutions
to be supplied, the machinery now therein and the number  of  prisoners,
in  order  to secure the best service and distribution of the labor, and
to employ the prisoners, so far as practicable, in occupations in  which
they will be most likely to obtain employment after their discharge from
imprisonment.  The  commissioner  shall change or dispose of the present
plants and machinery in said institutions now used in  industries  which
shall  be  discontinued,  and  which  can  not be used in the industries
hereafter to be carried on in said prisons, due effort  to  be  made  by
full  notice  to  probable purchasers, in case of sales of industries or
machinery, to obtain the best price possible for the property sold,  and
good will of the business to be discontinued.
  2.  The  commissioner  shall  submit reports, quarterly, to the senate
finance committee, the  assembly  ways  and  means  committee,  and  the
director  of  the  budget,  regarding industries under his jurisdiction.
Such reports shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
  (a) all materials, machinery or other property procured, and the  cost
thereof;
  (b) all other expenditures and the nature thereof;
  (c) all receipts and the nature thereof;
  (d) all inventory on hand at the opening and closing of the quarter;
  (e) recommendations regarding the continuance of the program.