N.Y. Correction Law § 500-d: Food and labor

§ 500-d. Food and labor. (1) Prisoners detained for trial, and those

under sentence, shall be provided with a sufficient quantity of plain

but wholesome food, at the expense of the county; such foods shall be

purchased in the manner and subject to the regulations provided in

section four hundred eight of the county law; but prisoners detained for

trial may, at their own expense, and under the direction of the keeper,

be supplied with any other proper articles of food.

(2) Such keeper shall cause each prisoner committed to his jail for

imprisonment under sentence, to be constantly employed at hard labor

when practicable, during every day, except Sunday but the Sunday

exception shall not apply where a prisoner under sentence of

intermittent imprisonment serves less than the five preceding days in

the jail and the keeper has adopted an employment program designed

especially for intermittent imprisonment, and the board of supervisors

of the county, or judge of the county, may prescribe the kind of labor

at which such prisoner shall be employed; and the keeper shall account,

at least annually, with the board of supervisors of the county, for the

proceeds of such labor.

(3) Such keeper may, with the consent of the board of supervisors of

the county, or the county judge, from time to time, cause such of the

convicts under his or her charge as are capable of hard labor, to be

employed outside of the jail in the same, or in an adjoining county,

upon such terms as may be agreed upon between the keepers and the

officers, or persons, under whose direction such convicts shall be

placed, subject to such regulations as the board or judge may prescribe;

and the board of supervisors of the several counties are authorized to

employ convicts under sentence to confinement in the county jails, in

building and repairing penal institutions of the county and in building

and repairing the highways in their respective counties or in preparing

the materials for such highways for sale to and for the use of the

state, counties, towns, villages or cities, and in cutting wood and

performing other work which is commonly carried on at a prison camp, and

to make rules and regulations for their employment; and the said board

of supervisors are hereby authorized to cause money to be raised by

taxation for the purpose of furnishing materials and carrying this

provision into effect; and the courts of this state are hereby

authorized to sentence convicts committed to detention in the county

jails to such hard labor as may be provided for them by the boards of

supervisors. This section as amended shall not affect a county wholly

included within a city. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an

incarcerated individual may be permitted to leave the institution under

guard to voluntarily perform work for a nonprofit organization pursuant

to this subdivision. As used in this section, the term "nonprofit

organization" means an organization operated exclusively for religious,

charitable, or educational purposes, no part of the net earnings of

which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual.