N.Y. Correction Law § 509: Absence of incarcerated individual for funeral and deathbed visits

§ 509. Absence of incarcerated individual for funeral and deathbed

visits. The sheriff of a local correctional facility or his or her

designee may permit any incarcerated individual confined in his or her

local correctional facility to attend the funeral of his or her father,

mother, guardian or former guardian, child, brother, sister, husband,

wife, grandparent, grandchild, ancestral uncle or ancestral aunt within

the state, or to visit such individual during his or her illness if

death be imminent; but the exercise of such power shall be subject to

such rules and regulations as the commission shall prescribe, respecting

the granting of such permission, duration of absence from the

institution, custody, transportation and care of the incarcerated

individual, and guarding against escape.