N.Y. Correct. Law § 141

§ 141. Contagious disease in facility. In case any pestilence or\ncontagious disease shall break out among the inmates in any of the\ncorrectional facilities, or in the vicinity of such facilities, the\ncommissioner of correction may cause the inmates confined in such\nfacility, or any of them, to be removed to some suitable place of\nsecurity, where such of them as may be sick shall receive all necessary\ncare and medical assistance; such inmates shall be returned as soon as\nmay be feasible to the facility from which they were taken, to be\nconfined therein according to their respective sentences.\n