N.Y. COR Law § 170

§ 170. Contracts prohibited. 1. The commissioner shall not, nor shall\nany other authority whatsoever, make any contract by which the labor or\ntime of any incarcerated individual in any state or local correctional\nfacility in this state, or the product or profit of his or her work,\nshall be contracted, let, farmed out, given or sold to any person, firm,\nassociation or corporation; except that the incarcerated individuals in\nsaid correctional institutions may work for, and the products of their\nlabor may be disposed of to, the state or any political subdivision\nthereof, any public institution owned or managed and controlled by the\nstate, or any political subdivision thereof, provided that no\nincarcerated individual shall be employed or assigned to engage in any\nactivity that involves obtaining access to, collecting or processing\nsocial security account numbers of other individuals.\n 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, it shall be lawful for\nan incarcerated individual of the department to work in an institution\nof the department in the manufacture and production of goods, including\nbut not limited to, license plates, identification plates and insignia\nfor vehicles, and for the department to sell or otherwise dispose of for\nprofit such goods to the government of the United States or to any state\nof the United States, or political subdivision thereof, or any public\ncorporation or eleemosynary association or corporation funded in whole\nor in part by any federal, state or local funds.\n 3. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an incarcerated\nindividual may be permitted to leave the institution under guard to\nvoluntarily perform work for a nonprofit organization. As used in this\nsection, the term "nonprofit organization" means an organization\noperated exclusively for religious, charitable, or educational purposes,\nno part of the net earnings of which inures to the benefit of any\nprivate shareholder or individual.\n