2023 New York Laws › COR - Correction › Article 20 - Local Correctional Facilities › 500-D - Food and Labor.

§  500-d.  Food and labor. (1) Prisoners detained for trial, and those
under sentence, shall be provided with a sufficient  quantity  of  plain
but  wholesome  food,  at the expense of the county; such foods shall be
purchased in the manner and  subject  to  the  regulations  provided  in
section four hundred eight of the county law; but prisoners detained for
trial  may, at their own expense, and under the direction of the keeper,
be supplied with any other proper articles of food.
(2) Such keeper shall cause each prisoner committed to  his  jail  for
imprisonment  under  sentence,  to  be constantly employed at hard labor
when practicable,  during  every  day,  except  Sunday  but  the  Sunday
exception   shall   not   apply  where  a  prisoner  under  sentence  of
intermittent imprisonment serves less than the five  preceding  days  in
the  jail  and  the  keeper  has  adopted an employment program designed
especially for intermittent imprisonment, and the board  of  supervisors
of  the  county, or judge of the county, may prescribe the kind of labor
at which such prisoner shall be employed; and the keeper shall  account,
at  least annually, with the board of supervisors of the county, for the
proceeds of such labor.
(3) Such keeper may, with the consent of the board of  supervisors  of
the  county,  or  the county judge, from time to time, cause such of the
convicts under his or her charge as are capable of  hard  labor,  to  be
employed  outside  of  the  jail in the same, or in an adjoining county,
upon such terms as may be  agreed  upon  between  the  keepers  and  the
officers,  or  persons,  under  whose  direction  such convicts shall be
placed, subject to such regulations as the board or judge may prescribe;
and the board of supervisors of the several counties are  authorized  to
employ  convicts  under  sentence to confinement in the county jails, in
building and repairing penal institutions of the county and in  building
and  repairing the highways in their respective counties or in preparing
the materials for such highways for sale to  and  for  the  use  of  the
state,  counties,  towns,  villages  or  cities, and in cutting wood and
performing other work which is commonly carried on at a prison camp, and
to make rules and regulations for their employment; and the  said  board
of  supervisors  are  hereby  authorized  to cause money to be raised by
taxation for the purpose  of  furnishing  materials  and  carrying  this
provision  into  effect;  and  the  courts  of  this  state  are  hereby
authorized to sentence convicts committed to  detention  in  the  county
jails  to  such  hard labor as may be provided for them by the boards of
supervisors. This section as amended shall not affect  a  county  wholly
included  within  a city. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an
incarcerated individual may be permitted to leave the institution  under
guard  to voluntarily perform work for a nonprofit organization pursuant
to this subdivision. As  used  in  this  section,  the  term  "nonprofit
organization"  means an organization operated exclusively for religious,
charitable, or educational purposes, no part  of  the  net  earnings  of
which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual.