N.Y. Correction Law § 141: Contagious disease in facility

§ 141. Contagious disease in facility. In case any pestilence or

contagious disease shall break out among the incarcerated individuals in

any of the correctional facilities, or in the vicinity of such

facilities, the commissioner of correction may cause the incarcerated

individuals confined in such facility, or any of them, to be removed to

some suitable place of security, where such of them as may be sick shall

receive all necessary care and medical assistance; such incarcerated

individuals shall be returned as soon as may be feasible to the facility

from which they were taken, to be confined therein according to their

respective sentences.