N.Y. Education Law § 285: State aid for cooperation with correctional facilities

§ 285. State aid for cooperation with correctional facilities. 1. Each

public library system operating under an approved plan of service which

has a state correctional facility or facilities within its area of

service shall be awarded an annual grant of nine dollars twenty-five

cents per capita for the incarcerated individual population of such

facility or facilities to make available to the incarcerated individual

population of such facility or facilities, in direct coordination with

the correctional facilities libraries, the library resources of such

system. The commissioner shall adopt any regulations necessary to carry

out the purposes and provisions of this subdivision.

2. The commissioner is authorized to expend up to one hundred

seventy-five thousand dollars annually to provide grants to public

library systems operating under an approved plan of service for

provision of services to county jail facilities. Such formula grants

shall assist the library system in making available to the incarcerated

individual population of such facility or facilities the library

resources of such system. Such grants shall be available to each public

library system in such manner as to insure that the ratio of the amount

each system is eligible to receive equals the ratio of the number of

incarcerated individuals served by the county jail facility to the total

number of incarcerated individuals served by county jail facilities in

the state as of July first of the year preceding the calendar year in

which the state aid to public library systems is to be paid.

Incarcerated individual populations shall be certified by the New York

state commission of correction. The commissioner shall adopt any

regulations necessary to carry out the purposes and provisions of this

subdivision.