N.Y. Correction Law § 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.