New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
Subtitle AA - STATE COMMISSION OF CORRECTION
Chapter III - Minimum Standards and Regulations for Management of Specialized Secure Juvenile Detention Facilities for Older Youth
Part 7356 - GOOD BEHAVIOR ALLOWANCES AND SENTENCE CALCULATION
Section 7356.1 - Good behavior allowances against definite sentences

(a) Youth confined to a facility serving a definite sentence of imprisonment may receive time allowances as discretionary reductions of the term of the sentence, as provided by law.

(b) The director, or designee, shall keep a record of every youth confined to the facility who may be eligible to receive a discretionary reduction of a definite sentence or sentences, by reason of the application of good behavior allowances.

(c) Such record shall indicate the manner in which the discretionary good behavior allowances were calculated and applied to the term of the sentence or sentences imposed by the court.

(d) Whenever a good behavior allowance, or any part thereof, is granted, withheld, forfeited or canceled, in whole or in part, or whenever such good behavior allowance, or any part thereof, is restored, a notation to that effect shall be entered in the record with a suitable explanation for the action taken.

(e) Upon the commencement of any definite sentence, the provisions of this Part shall be furnished to the youth serving such sentence, and the meaning of the same shall be fully explained by staff designated for such purpose, and the youth shall be required to acknowledge in writing that such explanation was made.