N.Y. Correction Law § 618: Duties of state correctional institutions, penitentiaries, county jails and reformatories

§ 618. Duties of state correctional institutions, penitentiaries,

county jails and reformatories. 1. It shall also be the duty of the

commissioner to continue to make or have impressions made of the finger

and thumbprints of all incarcerated individuals in any of the

institutions under the jurisdiction of the department; in his or her

discretion, to cause said incarcerated individuals to be measured and

described; and to cause to be obtained and recorded, so far as possible,

modus operandi statements of said incarcerated individuals. The

commissioner shall cause such impressions and measurements of persons

confined in state correctional institutions to be made by a person or

persons in the official service of the state in conformity with the

system now in use in the division of criminal justice services, and

shall prescribe rules and regulations for obtaining and recording such

modus operandi statements, and for keeping accurate records of such

impressions, measurements and statements, in the offices of such

institutions.

2. It is hereby made the duty of the officials having charge of all

the penitentiaries and county jails in the state to cause incarcerated

individuals confined therein under sentence for any crime to be measured

and described and the fingerprint impressions of such incarcerated

individuals to be made according to the rules and methods prescribed by

the commissioner of criminal justice services. It shall also be the duty

of such officials in charge of such institutions to procure so far as

possible modus operandi statements from all such prisoners. And it shall

be the duty of such officials to cause duplicate records of such

measurements, impressions and statements to be made, two copies to be

transmitted to the division of criminal justice services within

twenty-four hours following the time of the reception of such

incarcerated individuals in said institutions.

3. There shall continue to be maintained in the various state prisons,

penitentiaries, reformatories and other penal institutions of the state

during the time that prisoners are therein confined complete individual

case histories of each prisoner so confined.