2022 New York Laws
COR - Correction
Article 7 - Labor in Correctional Institutions
200 - Department Programs and Incentive Allowances.

§  200.  Department  programs  and  incentive  allowances.  1. For the
  purpose of this section the  term  "incentive  allowance"  means  monies
  allowed  an  incarcerated individual of a state correctional institution
  for the efficient and willing performance of duties assigned or progress
  and achievement in educational, career and industrial training programs.
2. In lieu  of  the  system  of  labor  in  correctional  institutions
  established   by  this  article,  the  commissioner  may,  in  order  to
  facilitate an  incarcerated  individual's  eventual  reintegration  into
  society, establish for the incarcerated individuals in one or more state
  correctional institutions a system of educational, career and industrial
  training programs, and of incentive allowances for each such program.
3.  For  each  institution  wherein  such  system  is  established the
  commissioner shall prepare, and may at times  revise,  graded  incentive
  allowance  schedules  for  the incarcerated individuals within each such
  program based upon the levels  of  performance  and  achievement  by  an
  incarcerated  individual  in  a  program  to  which  he  or she has been
  assigned. Upon the approval of the director of the budget such schedules
  or revisions thereof may be promulgated.
4. The commissioner shall also provide  for  the  establishment  of  a
  credit  system  for each incarcerated individual and the manner in which
  incentive allowances shall be paid to the incarcerated individual or his
  or her dependents or held in trust for him  or  her  until  his  or  her
  release.   The  amount  of  incentive  allowed  to  the  credit  of  any
  incarcerated individual shall be disposed of as provided by section  one
  hundred eighty-nine of this article.
5.  Incentive  allowances  may  be  paid  from  monies provided to the
  department and available to the facilities for non-personal services  or
  from the correctional industry training and career education fund.
6.  Except  as otherwise provided by this section, those provisions of
  law dealing with labor in state correctional institutions shall apply to
  industrial training in state  correctional  institutions  including  the
  disposition  of  services  rendered  and products produced incidental to
  such industrial training.