N.Y. Correction Law § 199: Establishment of inmate employment list

* § 199. Establishment of inmate employment list. 1. The department of

correctional services shall maintain a list of inmates who are eligible

for consideration for release on parole or otherwise within twelve

months. Such list shall be amended every other month in order to add

newly eligible inmates and to remove from the list inmates who have been

discharged from the custody of the department. Inmates shall be included

in such list only upon their own written request. The list shall be

known as the "inmate-employment list" and it shall contain the names of

inmates, their home towns, the vocational and educational training

programs completed by the inmates while incarcerated, jobs held by the

inmates while incarcerated, the institution at which the inmate is

lodged, and other information the department feels would be useful to

prospective employers of such inmates upon their release. Such list

shall be provided, upon written request, to approved prospective

employers who have first submitted information required by the

department. The department shall permit approved prospective employers

to visit facilities operated by the department in order to interview

inmates whose names appear on the employment lists for the purpose of

possible employment upon the inmate's release. Approved prospective

employers wishing to interview inmates must notify the department in

writing. If the department is unable to permit job interviews on the

date requested by the approved prospective employer, it shall provide an

alternative date.

2. For the purposes of this section only the term "approved

prospective employers" shall mean those individuals or corporations who

have stated an interest in employing former inmates and have supplied

the information requested by the department, which shall be reviewed by

the commissioner of correctional services prior to designating them as

approved prospective employers.

* NB Expired June 1, 1980