N.Y. Correction Law § 652: Delivery of warrant and confinement

§ 652. Delivery of warrant and confinement. 1. Within ten days after

the issuance of a warrant as provided in section six hundred fifty of

this article, the sheriff or the commissioner of correction, if within

the city of New York or county of Westchester, must deliver the warrant

and the person sentenced, if that person is not already in the custody

of the department, to the department or to the superintendent of the

state institution designated by the commissioner. Upon the issuance of

the warrant the court shall cause a copy to be personally delivered to

the convicted person and shall send a copy of the warrant to the

convicted person's last attorney of record.

2. From the time of the delivery of the warrant and until the

imposition of the punishment of death upon the convicted person, unless

discharged from the sentence, such person may, in the commissioner's

discretion, either be kept isolated from the general prison population

in a designated institution or confined as otherwise provided by law.

The commissioner, in his discretion, may determine that the safety and

security of the facility, or of the inmate population, or of the staff,

or of the inmate, would not be jeopardized by the inmate's confinement

within the general prison population.

3. The commissioner may promulgate rules and regulations concerning

visitation of inmates sentenced to death. Such rules and regulations

may provide that inmates sentenced to death are subject to different

visitation policies and procedures than inmates who are not sentenced to

death.