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NY A10626
Bill
Status
3/13/2026
Primary Sponsor
Brian Cunningham
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AI Summary
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Creates a New York State Prison Labor Board with 15 members including corrections officials, labor commissioners, formerly and currently incarcerated individuals, reentry program representatives, and organized labor members to oversee all prison work programs
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Requires prison labor programs to focus on rehabilitation and reentry rather than generating profits or cost-savings for the state, private entities, or individuals, and prohibits forced labor through threats, punishment, or coercion
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Mandates minimum wage pay (per Labor Law Article 19) for incarcerated workers, extends federal and state workplace health and safety protections to them, and grants the right to organize and collectively bargain
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Prohibits the department from garnishing or attaching incarcerated individuals' funds without their consent, requires all interest earned on their accounts to be credited directly to them, and protects earnings from attachment in the department's hands
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Eliminates Corcraft's preferred vendor status by repealing State Finance Law provisions that gave the correctional industries program priority for state purchases of commodities and services
Legislative Description
Establishes a New York state prison labor board to ensure that all labor programs comply with the requirements of the labor law and are for the purpose of promoting successful rehabilitation, reentry and reintegration into the community and not for the purpose of earnings or cost-savings which inure to the benefit the state or any private individual or corporation; prohibits the department of corrections and community supervision from unfairly attaching, garnishing or disbursing the funds of incarcerated individuals where such individuals have not requested disbursement; requires that all interest accumulated on incarcerated individuals' funds be credited to such individual's accounts; eliminates the preferred status of the department of corrections and community supervision regarding commodities and services furnished by the correctional industries program; repeals certain provisions of the state finance law relating to such preferred status.
Last Action
referred to correction
3/13/2026