New York Correction Law Article 2 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION

• 5 - Department of Corrections and Community Supervision; Commissioner.
  5. Department of corrections and community supervision; commissioner. 1. There shall be in the state government a department of corrections and community supervision. The head...
• 7 - Organization of Department of Corrections and Community Supervision; Officers and Employees; Delegation by Commissioner.
  1. The commissioner of corrections and community supervision may, from time to time, create, abolish, transfer and consolidate divisions, bureaus and other units within the...
• 8 - Testing of Certain Applicants for Employment.
  * 1. Any applicant for employment with the department as a correction officer at a facility of the department, shall be tested in accordance with...
• 9 - Access to Inmate Information via the Internet.
  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any information relating to the conviction of a person, except for a person convicted of an offense...
• 10 - Parole Officers.
  1. Employees in the department who perform the duties of supervising inmates released on community supervision shall be parole officers. 2. No person shall be...
• 15-b - Education.
  The present director of vocational education shall be the director of education with the powers and duties of the director of education and hereafter shall...
• 15-c - Enacted Without Section Heading.
  15-c. The commissioner, with the approval of the governor, may accept as agent of the state any grant, including federal grants, or any gift for...
• 16 - Expense of Autopsy; State Charge.
  1. The reasonable expense of any inquiry, autopsy, examination or report prepared thereon conducted by a coroner, coroner's physician or medical examiner as required by...
• 18 - Superintendents of Correctional Facilities.
  1. Each correctional facility shall have a superintendent who shall be appointed by the commissioner. Each such superintendent shall be in the non-competitive-confidential class but...
• 19 - Salary and Emoluments of Superintendents.
  1. This section shall apply to each superintendent of a correctional facility appointed on or after August ninth, nineteen hundred seventy-five and any superintendent heretofore...
• 20 - Library.
  A library shall be provided in the department containing the leading books on parole, probation and other correctional activities, together with reports and other documents...
• 21 - Acquisition of Real Property by Purchase and Acquisition.
  1. The commissioner, when an appropriation therefor has been made by the legislature, may acquire any real property which he may deem necessary for the...
• 22 - Institution Officers Not to Be Interested in Institution Contracts.
  A commissioner of correction, superintendent or other officer or employee, employed at any of the institutions in the department who: 1. Shall be directly or...
• 22-a - Qualification for Employment As a Correction Officer.
  No person, on or after the effective date of this section, may be appointed to the position of a correction officer in any institution in...
• 23 - Transfer of Inmates From One Correctional Facility to Another; Treatment in Outside Hospitals.
  1. The commissioner shall have the power to transfer inmates from one correctional facility to another. Whenever the transfer of inmates from one correctional facility...
• 24 - Civil Actions Against Department Personnel.
  1. No civil action shall be brought in any court of the state, except by the attorney general on behalf of the state, against any...
• 24-a - Actions Against Persons Rendering Health Care Services At the Request of the Department; Defense and Indemnification.
  The provisions of section seventeen of the public officers law shall apply to any person holding a license to practice a profession pursuant to article...
• 25 - Mutual Assistance by Institutional and Local Fire Fighting Facilities.
  In cooperation with the development and operation of plans for mutual aid in cases of fire and other public emergencies, the warden or superintendent of...
• 26 - Establishment of Commissaries or Canteens in Correctional Institutions.
  The commissioner may authorize the head of any institution in the department to establish a commissary or a canteen in such institution for the use...
• 29 - Department Statistics.
  1. The department shall continue to collect, maintain, and analyze statistical and other information and data with respect to persons subject to the jurisdiction of...

Last modified: February 3, 2019