New York Laws
Article 7 - Labor in Correctional Institutions
200 - Department Programs and Incentive Allowances.

§ 200. Department programs and incentive allowances. 1. For the
purpose of this section the term "incentive allowance" means monies
allowed an incarcerated individual of a state correctional institution
for the efficient and willing performance of duties assigned or progress
and achievement in educational, career and industrial training programs.

2. In lieu of the system of labor in correctional institutions
established by this article, the commissioner may, in order to
facilitate an incarcerated individual's eventual reintegration into
society, establish for the incarcerated individuals in one or more state
correctional institutions a system of educational, career and industrial
training programs, and of incentive allowances for each such program.

3. For each institution wherein such system is established the
commissioner shall prepare, and may at times revise, graded incentive
allowance schedules for the incarcerated individuals within each such
program based upon the levels of performance and achievement by an
incarcerated individual in a program to which he or she has been
assigned. Upon the approval of the director of the budget such schedules
or revisions thereof may be promulgated.

4. The commissioner shall also provide for the establishment of a
credit system for each incarcerated individual and the manner in which
incentive allowances shall be paid to the incarcerated individual or his
or her dependents or held in trust for him or her until his or her
release. The amount of incentive allowed to the credit of any
incarcerated individual shall be disposed of as provided by section one
hundred eighty-nine of this article.

5. Incentive allowances may be paid from monies provided to the
department and available to the facilities for non-personal services or
from the correctional industry training and career education fund.

6. Except as otherwise provided by this section, those provisions of
law dealing with labor in state correctional institutions shall apply to
industrial training in state correctional institutions including the
disposition of services rendered and products produced incidental to
such industrial training.