N.Y. COR Law § 200

§ 200. Department programs and incentive allowances. 1. For the\npurpose of this section the term "incentive allowance" means monies\nallowed an incarcerated individual of a state correctional institution\nfor the efficient and willing performance of duties assigned or progress\nand achievement in educational, career and industrial training programs.\n 2. In lieu of the system of labor in correctional institutions\nestablished by this article, the commissioner may, in order to\nfacilitate an incarcerated individual's eventual reintegration into\nsociety, establish for the incarcerated individuals in one or more state\ncorrectional institutions a system of educational, career and industrial\ntraining programs, and of incentive allowances for each such program.\n 3. For each institution wherein such system is established the\ncommissioner shall prepare, and may at times revise, graded incentive\nallowance schedules for the incarcerated individuals within each such\nprogram based upon the levels of performance and achievement by an\nincarcerated individual in a program to which he or she has been\nassigned. Upon the approval of the director of the budget such schedules\nor revisions thereof may be promulgated.\n 4. The commissioner shall also provide for the establishment of a\ncredit system for each incarcerated individual and the manner in which\nincentive allowances shall be paid to the incarcerated individual or his\nor her dependents or held in trust for him or her until his or her\nrelease. The amount of incentive allowed to the credit of any\nincarcerated individual shall be disposed of as provided by section one\nhundred eighty-nine of this article.\n 5. Incentive allowances may be paid from monies provided to the\ndepartment and available to the facilities for non-personal services or\nfrom the correctional industry training and career education fund.\n 6. Except as otherwise provided by this section, those provisions of\nlaw dealing with labor in state correctional institutions shall apply to\nindustrial training in state correctional institutions including the\ndisposition of services rendered and products produced incidental to\nsuch industrial training.\n