N.Y. COR Law § 184

§ 184. Articles manufactured to be furnished to the state or\nsubdivisions thereof. 1. The commissioner is authorized and directed to\ncause to be manufactured or prepared by the incarcerated individuals in\nthe state correctional facilities, such articles as are needed and used\ntherein, and also, such articles as are required by the state or\npolitical subdivisions thereof, and in the buildings, offices and public\ninstitutions owned or managed and controlled by the state, including\narticles and materials to be used in the erection of the buildings, and\nincluding material for the construction, improvement or repair of\nhighways, streets and roads.\n 2. All such articles manufactured or prepared in the state\ncorrectional facilities, or by incarcerated individuals, and not\nrequired for use therein, shall be of the styles, patterns, designs and\nqualities fixed by the department of corrections and community\nsupervision, except where the same have been or may be fixed by the\noffice of general services in the executive department. Such articles\nmay be furnished to the state, or to any political subdivision thereof,\nor for or to any public institution owned or managed and controlled by\nthe state, or any political subdivision thereof, government of the\nUnited States or to any state of the United States or subdivision\nthereof or to any public corporation, authority, or eleemosynary\nassociation funded in whole or in part by any federal, state or local\nfunds, at and for such prices as shall be fixed and determined as\nhereinafter provided, upon the requisitions of the proper officials\nthereof. No article so manufactured or prepared shall be purchased from\nany other source, for the state or public institutions of the state, or\nthe political subdivisions thereof, or public benefit corporations,\nauthorities or commissions, unless the commissioner of corrections and\ncommunity supervision shall certify that the same can not be furnished\nupon such requisition, and no claim therefor shall be audited or paid\nwithout such certificate.\n