N.Y. Correct. Law § 509
Current through 2024 NY Law Chapter 553
The sheriff of a local correctional facility or his or her designee may permit any incarcerated individual confined in his or her local correctional facility to attend the funeral of his or her father, mother, guardian or former guardian, child, brother, sister, husband, wife, grandparent, grandchild, ancestral uncle or ancestral aunt within the state, or to visit such individual during his or her illness if death be imminent; but the exercise of such power shall be subject to such rules and regulations as the commission shall prescribe, respecting the granting of such permission, duration of absence from the institution, custody, transportation and care of the incarcerated individual, and guarding against escape.
N.Y. Correct. Law § 509