New York Consolidated Laws, Correction Law - COR § 200. Department programs and incentive allowances

1. For the purpose of this section the term “incentive allowance” means monies allowed an incarcerated individual of a state correctional institution for the efficient and willing performance of duties assigned or progress and achievement in educational, career and industrial training programs.

2. In lieu of the system of labor in correctional institutions established by this article, the commissioner may, in order to facilitate an incarcerated individual's eventual reintegration into society, establish for the incarcerated individuals in one or more state correctional institutions a system of educational, career and industrial training programs, and of incentive allowances for each such program.

3. For each institution wherein such system is established the commissioner shall prepare, and may at times revise, graded incentive allowance schedules for the incarcerated individuals within each such program based upon the levels of performance and achievement by an incarcerated individual in a program to which he or she has been assigned.  Upon the approval of the director of the budget such schedules or revisions thereof may be promulgated.

4. The commissioner shall also provide for the establishment of a credit system for each incarcerated individual and the manner in which incentive allowances shall be paid to the incarcerated individual or his or her dependents or held in trust for him or her until his or her release.  The amount of incentive allowed to the credit of any incarcerated individual shall be disposed of as provided by section one hundred eighty-nine of this article.

5. Incentive allowances may be paid from monies provided to the department and available to the facilities for non-personal services or from the correctional industry training and career education fund.

6. Except as otherwise provided by this section, those provisions of law dealing with labor in state correctional institutions shall apply to industrial training in state correctional institutions including the disposition of services rendered and products produced incidental to such industrial training.