69. Sale of inmate made goods. No goods, wares, or merchandise, manufactured, produced or mined wholly or in part by inmates, except inmates or persons on parole, probation, or release, shall be sold in this state to any person, firm, association or corporation except that nothing in this section shall be construed to forbid the sale of such goods produced in the correctional facilities of this state to the state, the government of the United States or to any state of the United States, or any political subdivision thereof, or for any public institution owned or managed and controlled by the state, or any political subdivision thereof, as provided in section one hundred eighty-four of the correction law, or any public corporation or eleemosynary association or corporation funded in whole or in part by any federal, state or local funds, or to forbid the sale, subject to the rules and regulations of the head of the department or other like governmental authority having jurisdiction, of any product resulting from occupational therapy within any penal or correctional institution, as provided in section one hundred ninety-seven of the correction law.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to forbid the sale of parts and components produced by inmate labor in correctional industry programs of the government of the United States or any state of the United States, or any political subdivision thereof, to the department of corrections and community supervision's division of correctional industries for use in its manufacturing operations.
A violation of the provisions of this section shall constitute a misdemeanor.
Last modified: February 3, 2019