N.Y. Correction Law § 500-i: County workhouses

§ 500-i. County workhouses. The board of supervisors of any county

may establish and maintain a workhouse for the confinement of persons

convicted within the county of crimes and criminal offenses, the

punishment for which is imprisonment in the county jail, and may provide

for the imprisonment and employment therein of all persons sentenced

thereto, and any court or judicial officer may sentence such person to

such workhouse instead of to the county jail.