113 - Absence of inmate for funeral and deathbed visits or to report at an induction center for preinduction examination authorized. - New York Statutes

§ 113. Absence of inmate for funeral and deathbed visits or to report at an induction center for preinduction examination authorized. The commissioner of correctional services may permit any inmate confined by the department except one awaiting the sentence of death 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 or to report to an induction center for the purpose of being examined for possible induction into the armed forces of the United States; but the exercise of such power shall be subject to such rules and regulations as the commissioner of correctional services shall prescribe, respecting the granting of such permission, duration of absence from the institution, custody, transportation and care of the inmate, and guarding against escape. Any expense incurred under the provisions of this section, with respect to any inmate permitted to attend a funeral or visit a relative during last illness, shall be deemed an expense of maintenance of the institution and be paid from moneys available therefor; but the superintendent, if the rules and regulations of the commissioner of correctional services shall so provide, may allow the inmate or anyone in his behalf to reimburse the state for such expense. Any expense of custodial officers incurred in delivering and returning inmates to and from an induction center shall be deemed an expense of the institution and be paid from moneys available therefor but expenses of such inmates shall not be defrayed by the institution or department or the state.