New York Correction Law Article 20 - LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES

• 500 - Application of Article.
  The provisions of this article shall apply to all local correctional facilities as defined by subdivision sixteen of section two of this chapter.
• 500-a - Use of Jails.
  1. Each county jail shall be used: (a) For the detention of persons duly committed to secure their attendance as witnesses in any criminal case;...
• 500-b - Housing of Prisoners and Other Persons in Custody.
  * 1. As used in this section, the term "chief administrative officer" shall mean the person responsible pursuant to section five hundred-c of this article...
• 500-c - Custody and Control of Prisoners.
  * 1. Except as provided in subdivision two of this section, the sheriff of each county shall have custody of the county jail of such...
• 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...
• 500-e - Reading Matter; Divine Service.
  Each keeper shall provide a bible to be kept in each room of the jail in his charge, and he shall permit the persons therein...
• 500-f - Record of Commitments and Discharges.
  Each keeper shall keep a daily record, to be provided at the expense of the county, of the commitments and discharges of all prisoners delivered...
• 500-g - Commitment by United States Courts.
  * The chief administrative officer shall receive and keep in his jail every person duly committed thereto, for any offense against the United States, by...
• 500-h - Payment of Costs for Medical and Dental Services.
  1. Diagnoses, tests, studies or analyses for the diagnosis of a disease or disability, and care and treatment by a hospital, as defined in article...
• 500-i - County Workhouses.
  The board of supervisors of any county may establish and maintain a workhouse for the confinement of persons convicted within the county of crimes and...
• 500-j - Who May Visit Local Correctional Facilities.
  The following persons may visit at pleasure all local correctional facilities: The governor and lieutenant-governor, secretary of state, comptroller and attorney-general, members of the legislature,...
• 500-k - Treatment of Inmates.
  Subdivisions five and six of section one hundred thirty-seven of this chapter, except paragraphs (d) and (e) of subdivision six of such section, relating to...
• 500-l - Release on Holidays, Saturdays and Sundays.
  When the date of release from imprisonment in any county jail or jail farm, any city prison or workhouse, falls on Saturday or Sunday, it...
• 500-m - Special Provision Relating to City of New York.
  Unless specifically provided by law to the contrary, within the city of New York or the counties constituting such city the term sheriff as set...
• 500-n - Prisoners; Unlawful Fees Prohibited.
  * 1. Except as otherwise provided by law, a sheriff or other person in charge of a correctional facility or any person employed at such...
• 500-o - Agreements for Custody of Inmates From Other States.
  * 1. The sheriff, warden, superintendent, local commissioner of correction or other person in charge of a local correctional facility may enter into an agreement...
• 500-p - Prohibition on the Custody of Youth in Rikers Island Facilities.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no youth under the age of eighteen shall be placed or held in Rikers Island correctional facility or any...
• 501 - Jail Physician.
  1. The board of supervisors of each county, except New York, must appoint some reputable physician, duly authorized to practice medicine, as the physician to...
• 502 - Use of Liquor in Jails.
  Spirituous, fermented or other liquor shall not be brought into a jail for the use of a person confined therein, except as authorized by federal...
• 503 - Permit to Bring Liquor Into Jail.
  A permit by a jail physician as specified in the last section shall not be granted, unless the physician is satisfied, that the liquor allowed...
• 504 - Designation of Substitute Jail.
  1. If there is no jail in a county, or the jail becomes unfit or unsafe for the confinement of some or all of the...
• 505 - Provision of Routine Medical, Dental and Mental Health Services and Treatment.
  1. Where an inmate who is not yet eighteen years of age has been committed to the custody of the sheriff or other person in...
• 507 - Removal of Prisoners in Case of Fire.
  If, by reason of a jail, or a building near a jail, being on fire, there is reason to apprehend that some or all of...
• 508 - Removal of Sick Prisoners From Jail.
  1. A sheriff, in his or her discretion, may by written order permit inmates confined in a local correctional facility to receive medical diagnosis and...
• 509 - Absence of Inmate for Funeral and Deathbed Visits.
  The sheriff of a local correctional facility or his designee may permit any inmate confined in his local correctional facility to attend the funeral of...
• 514 - Confinement of Civil Prisoner.
  A civil prisoner, committed to jail upon process for contempt, or committed for misconduct in a case prescribed by law, must be actually confined and...
• 523 - Revocation of Designation of Jail.
  When a jail is erected for the county, for whose use the designation pursuant to section five hundred and four of this chapter was made,...
• 524 - Manner and Effect of Revocation.
  The county clerk must immediately serve a copy of the revocation, duly certified by him under his official seal, upon the sheriff of the same...
• 529 - Term of Imprisonment of a Recaptured Prisoner.
  A prisoner arrested or committed in a civil action or proceeding, who escapes from custody, upon his voluntary return or recapture, shall be imprisoned for...

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