N.Y. Correction Law § 171: Incarcerated individuals to be employed; products of labor of incarcerated individuals

§ 171. Incarcerated individuals to be employed; products of labor of

incarcerated individuals. 1. The commissioner and the superintendents

and officials of all penitentiaries in the state may cause incarcerated

individuals in the state correctional facilities and such penitentiaries

who are physically capable thereof to be employed for not to exceed

eight hours of each day other than Sundays and public holidays.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, however, the

commissioner and superintendents of state correctional facilities may

employ incarcerated individuals on a volunteer basis on Sundays and

public holidays in specialized areas of the facility, including kitchen

areas, vehicular garages, rubbish pickup and grounds maintenance,

providing, however, that incarcerated individuals so employed shall be

allowed an alternative free day within the normal work week.

2. Such labor shall be either for the purpose of the production of

supplies for said institutions, or for the state, or any political

subdivision thereof, or for any public institution owned or managed and

controlled by the state, or any political subdivision thereof; or for

the purpose of industrial training and instruction, or partly for one,

and partly for the other of such purposes.