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The commissioner of correction shall so far as practicable classify all felons, misdemeanants and violators of local laws under the commissioner's charge, so that the youthful or less hardened offenders shall be segregated from the older or more hardened offenders. The commissioner of correction may set apart one or more of the penal institutions for the custody of such youthful or less hardened offenders, and he or she is empowered to transfer such offenders thereto from any penal institution of the city. The commissioner of correction is empowered to classify the transferred incarcerated individuals, so far as practicable, with regard to age, nature of offense, or other fact, and to separate or group such offenders according to such classification.
(Am. 2021 N.Y. Laws Ch. 322, 8/2/2021, eff. 8/2/2021)
The commissioner of correction may establish and maintain schools or classes for the instruction and training of the incarcerated individuals of any institution under the commissioner's charge, and shall offer to all incarcerated individuals incarcerated for more than 10 days a minimum of five hours per day of incarcerated individual programming or education, excluding weekends and holidays. Such programming or education may be provided by the department or by another provider, and need not be offered to incarcerated individuals in punitive segregation, or to incarcerated individuals who may be ineligible or unavailable for such programming or education, or where offering such programming or education would not be consistent with the safety of the incarcerated individual, staff or facility. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the department from offering such programming or education on the basis of incentive-based criteria developed by the department. For the purposes of this section, the term "incarcerated individual programming" has the same meaning as in section 9-144.
(Am. L.L. 2017/170, 9/8/2017, eff. 1/8/2018; Am. 2021 N.Y. Laws Ch. 322, 8/2/2021, eff. 8/2/2021)
a. The commissioner of correction is empowered to set aside in the city prison a sufficient space for the purposes of installing a library for the incarcerated individuals. The commissioner of correction may do likewise in any other place in which persons are held for infractions of the law pending a determination by a court.
b. The commissioner of correction is authorized to accept contributions of books, pamphlets and periodicals. All such contributions shall be recorded and catalogued; an account thereof shall be kept and a report concerning the same shall be made to the commissioner of correction at least once in each calendar year.
(Am. 2021 N.Y. Laws Ch. 322, 8/2/2021, eff. 8/2/2021)
Where a member of the uniformed force shall be charged with the commission of a crime, he or she may be suspended without pay for the duration of the time that said criminal charges are pending final disposition. If the member is found not guilty of such criminal charges he or she shall be paid full back pay for the period of suspension. However, after the final disposition of said criminal charges no member of the uniformed force shall be suspended without pay for more than thirty days while awaiting disposition of departmental charges against such member. If the member is found not guilty of the departmental charges such member shall be paid full back pay for the period he or she had been suspended while awaiting disposition of the departmental charges against such member. In the event an award of back pay is made pursuant to this section, the amount of any salary or income earned by the member of the uniformed force during the period of suspension shall be deducted from the award.
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