N.Y. Correction Law § 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.