N.Y. Correction Law § 500-j: Who may visit local correctional facilities

§ 500-j. Who may visit local correctional facilities. The following

persons may visit at pleasure all local correctional facilities: The

governor and lieutenant-governor, secretary of state, comptroller and

attorney-general, members of the legislature, judges of the court of

appeals, justices of the supreme court and county judges, district

attorneys and every clergyman or minister, as such terms are defined in

section two of the religious corporations law, having charge of a

congregation in the county in which such facility is located. No other

person not otherwise authorized by law shall be permitted to enter the

rooms of a local correctional facility in which convicts are confined,

unless under such regulations as the sheriff of the county, or in

counties within the city of New York, the commissioner of correction of

such city, or in the county of Westchester, the commissioner of

correction of such county shall prescribe.