N.Y. Correction Law § 631: Definitions

* § 631. Definitions. As used in this article the following terms

shall have the following meanings:

1. "Institution" means any institution under the jurisdiction of the

commissioner of correction in any city having a population of one

million or more or of a county which elects to have this article apply

thereto.

2. "Eligible incarcerated individual" means a person confined in a

city prison or reformatory in a city having a population of one million

or more or in a county jail and penitentiaries of a county which elects

to have this article apply thereto where a furlough program has been

established who is sentenced to a definite period of six months or more

or to a reformatory sentence of imprisonment and has served a minimum of

six months of any such sentence.

3. "Furlough program" means a program under which eligible

incarcerated individuals may be granted the privilege of leaving the

premises of a prison for a period not exceeding seventy-two hours for

the purpose of seeking employment, maintaining family ties, solving

family problems, to undergo surgery or to receive medical treatment or

dental treatment not available in the correctional institution, or for

any matter necessary to the furtherance of any such purposes.

4. "Extended bounds of confinement" means the area in which an

incarcerated individual participating in a furlough program may travel,

the routes he or she is permitted to use, the places he or she is

authorized to visit, and the hours, days, or specially defined period

during which he or she is permitted to be absent from the premises of

the institution. An extension of limits shall be under such prescribed

conditions as the commissioner deems necessary. Such extension of limits

may be withdrawn at any time.

5. "Furlough committee" means the body of persons which may include

members of the public, appointed pursuant to regulations promulgated by

the commissioner for the purposes of formulating, modifying and revoking

furlough programs at an institution.

6. "Warden" means the person in charge of an institution by whatever

title he may be known.

7. "Commissioner" means the commissioner of correction in a city

having a population of one million or more or that official having

similar duties in any county which elects to have this article apply

thereto, by whatever title he may be known.

8. "Department" means the applicable department of correction or,

where no such department exists, the office of the commissioner.

* NB Repealed September 1, 2027