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N.Y. Correction Law § 500-o: Agreements for custody of incarcerated individuals from other states

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  1. Correction Law
  2. Article 20. Local Correctional Facilities

* § 500-o. Agreements for custody of incarcerated individuals from

other states. 1. The sheriff, warden, superintendent, local commissioner

of correction or other person in charge of a local correctional facility

may enter into an agreement with a correctional institution located in

another state to provide for the custody in such local correctional

facility in this state of persons sentenced to a period of imprisonment

for an offense in such other state to a term in excess of ninety days

but no more than one year. Any such agreement, except one that is made

by the city of New York, shall be subject to the approval of the county

legislature, the chief executive officer of the county and the

commission. An agreement made by the city of New York shall be subject

to the approval of the city council, the mayor and the commission.

2. Incarcerated individuals who are confined in a local correctional

facility pursuant to an agreement under this section shall be dealt with

in all respects in the same manner as incarcerated individuals committed

to the custody of a local correctional facility pursuant to paragraph

(e) of subdivision one of section five hundred-a of this article. All

rules and regulations promulgated by the commission regarding the

treatment of incarcerated individuals confined in a local correctional

facility shall be applicable to incarcerated individuals confined

pursuant to this section. An incarcerated individual confined in a local

correctional facility pursuant to an agreement under this section shall

not be deprived of any legal rights which such incarcerated individual

would have had if confined in a correctional institution in the

jurisdiction in which he or she was convicted.

3. Nothing in this section shall be construed to allow persons duly

committed and confined to a local correctional facility in this state to

serve such confinement in another state.

4. Notwithstanding subdivision one of this section, the sheriff of

Albany county may enter into an agreement with a correctional

institution located in another state to provide for the custody in the

Albany county correctional facility of persons sentenced to a period of

imprisonment in such other state to a term in excess of ninety days but

no more than two years, subject to the approval of the county

legislature, the chief executive officer and the commission.

* NB Repealed September 1, 2029

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