State Codes and Statutes
Statutes > New-york > Cor > Article-6 > 112§ 112. Powers and duties of commissioner of correction relating to correctional facilities. 1. The commissioner of correction shall have the superintendence, management and control of the correctional facilities in the department and of the inmates confined therein, and of all matters relating to the government, discipline, policing, contracts and fiscal concerns thereof. He shall have the power and it shall be his duty to inquire into all matters connected with said correctional facilities. He shall make such rules and regulations, not in conflict with the statutes of this state, for the government of the officers and other employees of the department assigned to said facilities, and in regard to the duties to be performed by them, and for the government and discipline of each correctional facility, as he may deem proper, and shall cause such rules and regulations to be recorded by the superintendent of the facility, and a copy thereof to be furnished to each employee assigned to the facility. He shall also prescribe a system of accounts and records to be kept at each correctional facility, which system shall be uniform at all of said facilities, and he shall also make rules and regulations for a record of photographs and other means of identifying each inmate received into said facilities. He shall appoint and remove, subject to the civil service law and rules, subordinate officers and other employees of the department who are assigned to correctional facilities. 2. The commissioner of correction may require reports from the superintendent or any other officer or employee of the department assigned to any correctional facility in relation to his conduct as such officer or employee, and shall have the power to inquire into any improper conduct which may be alleged to have been committed by any person at any correctional facility, and for that purpose to issue subpoenas to compel the attendance of witnesses, and the production before him of books, writings and papers. A subpoena issued under this section shall be regulated by the civil practice law and rules. The commissioner of correction is authorized and empowered to lease the railroad, constructed under and by the authority of the laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, chapter one hundred and forty-eight, for such term of years and upon such terms and conditions as shall be approved of, in writing, by the governor and comptroller of this state.
