New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 7 - DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION
Chapter V - Procedures for Implementing the Standards of Incarcerated Individual Behavior and for Granting Good Behavior Time Allowances
Subchapter B - Procedures For Granting Good Behavior Allowances
Part 262 - Granting Of Time Allowances
Section 262.1 - Procedure for granting good behavior allowances
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 12, March 20, 2024
(a) After consideration of the file by the committee, and after fulfilling any other requirements set forth in this Subchapter, the committee shall make a recommendation to the superintendent as to the amount of good behavior allowance to be accorded to the inmate.
(b) The superintendent shall promptly review the report of the committee and shall endorse any comments he may deem appropriate thereon and immediately forward the report of the committee and his comments, if any, to the commissioner or his designee.
(c) The commissioner or his designee will then transmit to the superintendent an order either confirming or modifying the amount of time to be granted or, remand the matter back to the committee for reevaluation and a hearing in accordance with section 261.4 of this Title.
(d) The time allowance specified in the final order of the commissioner or his designee shall be the good behavior allowance to be granted to the inmate. The grant of the good behavior allowance shall be contingent on the inmate's continued good behavior, efficient and willing performance of duties assigned, and progress and achievement in an assigned treatment program. The inmate shall be given a copy of this determination promptly.
