New York Laws
Article 7 - Labor in Correctional Institutions
171 - Incarcerated Individuals to Be Employed; Products of Labor of Incarcerated Individuals.

§ 171. Incarcerated individuals to be employed; products of labor of
incarcerated individuals. 1. The commissioner and the superintendents
and officials of all penitentiaries in the state may cause incarcerated
individuals in the state correctional facilities and such penitentiaries
who are physically capable thereof to be employed for not to exceed
eight hours of each day other than Sundays and public holidays.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, however, the
commissioner and superintendents of state correctional facilities may
employ incarcerated individuals on a volunteer basis on Sundays and
public holidays in specialized areas of the facility, including kitchen
areas, vehicular garages, rubbish pickup and grounds maintenance,
providing, however, that incarcerated individuals so employed shall be
allowed an alternative free day within the normal work week.

2. Such labor shall be either for the purpose of the production of
supplies for said institutions, or for the state, or any political
subdivision thereof, or for any public institution owned or managed and
controlled by the state, or any political subdivision thereof; or for
the purpose of industrial training and instruction, or partly for one,
and partly for the other of such purposes.