N.Y. COR Law § 652

§ 652. Delivery of warrant and confinement. 1. Within ten days after\nthe issuance of a warrant as provided in section six hundred fifty of\nthis article, the sheriff or the commissioner of correction, if within\nthe city of New York or county of Westchester, must deliver the warrant\nand the person sentenced, if that person is not already in the custody\nof the department, to the department or to the superintendent of the\nstate institution designated by the commissioner. Upon the issuance of\nthe warrant the court shall cause a copy to be personally delivered to\nthe convicted person and shall send a copy of the warrant to the\nconvicted person's last attorney of record.\n 2. From the time of the delivery of the warrant and until the\nimposition of the punishment of death upon the convicted person, unless\ndischarged from the sentence, such person may, in the commissioner's\ndiscretion, either be kept isolated from the general prison population\nin a designated institution or confined as otherwise provided by law.\nThe commissioner, in his discretion, may determine that the safety and\nsecurity of the facility, or of the inmate population, or of the staff,\nor of the inmate, would not be jeopardized by the inmate's confinement\nwithin the general prison population.\n 3. The commissioner may promulgate rules and regulations concerning\nvisitation of inmates sentenced to death. Such rules and regulations\nmay provide that inmates sentenced to death are subject to different\nvisitation policies and procedures than inmates who are not sentenced to\ndeath.\n