N.Y. COR Law § 618

§ 618. Duties of state correctional institutions, penitentiaries,\ncounty jails and reformatories. 1. It shall also be the duty of the\ncommissioner to continue to make or have impressions made of the finger\nand thumbprints of all incarcerated individuals in any of the\ninstitutions under the jurisdiction of the department; in his or her\ndiscretion, to cause said incarcerated individuals to be measured and\ndescribed; and to cause to be obtained and recorded, so far as possible,\nmodus operandi statements of said incarcerated individuals. The\ncommissioner shall cause such impressions and measurements of persons\nconfined in state correctional institutions to be made by a person or\npersons in the official service of the state in conformity with the\nsystem now in use in the division of criminal justice services, and\nshall prescribe rules and regulations for obtaining and recording such\nmodus operandi statements, and for keeping accurate records of such\nimpressions, measurements and statements, in the offices of such\ninstitutions.\n 2. It is hereby made the duty of the officials having charge of all\nthe penitentiaries and county jails in the state to cause incarcerated\nindividuals confined therein under sentence for any crime to be measured\nand described and the fingerprint impressions of such incarcerated\nindividuals to be made according to the rules and methods prescribed by\nthe commissioner of criminal justice services. It shall also be the duty\nof such officials in charge of such institutions to procure so far as\npossible modus operandi statements from all such prisoners. And it shall\nbe the duty of such officials to cause duplicate records of such\nmeasurements, impressions and statements to be made, two copies to be\ntransmitted to the division of criminal justice services within\ntwenty-four hours following the time of the reception of such\nincarcerated individuals in said institutions.\n 3. There shall continue to be maintained in the various state prisons,\npenitentiaries, reformatories and other penal institutions of the state\nduring the time that prisoners are therein confined complete individual\ncase histories of each prisoner so confined.\n