N.Y. Correct. Law § 146

§ 146. Persons authorized to visit correctional facilities. 1. The\nfollowing persons shall be authorized to visit at pleasure all\ncorrectional facilities: The governor and lieutenant-governor,\ncommissioner of general services, secretary of state, comptroller and\nattorney-general, members of the commission of correction, members of\nthe legislature and any employee of the department as requested by the\nmember of the legislature if the member requests to be so accompanied,\nprovided that such request does not impact upon the department's ability\nto supervise, manage and control its facilities as determined by the\ncommissioner, judges of the court of appeals, supreme court and county\njudges, district attorneys and every clergyman or minister, as such\nterms are defined in section two of the religious corporations law,\nhaving charge of a congregation in the county wherein any such facility\nis situated. No other person not otherwise authorized by law shall be\npermitted to enter a correctional facility except by authority of the\ncommissioner of correction under such regulations as the commissioner\nshall prescribe. The provisions of this section shall not apply to such\nportion of a correctional facility in which inmates under sentence of\ndeath are confined.\n 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, on each\nSeptember thirteenth anniversary date of the nineteen hundred\nseventy-one retaking of Attica correctional facility, in the absence of\nan emergency situation or other exigent circumstance, the commissioner\nshall ensure that any surviving state employees who were held as\nhostages and any immediate family members, as that term is defined in\nsubdivision four of section 120.40 of the penal law, of any of the state\nemployees who were held hostage for any period by rioting inmates during\nthe period from September ninth through September thirteenth, nineteen\nhundred seventy-one, shall be afforded access to the outside grounds of\nAttica correctional facility to conduct a private commemorative ceremony\nin front of the Attica monument upon which are inscribed the names of\nemployees who died as a result of the uprising and subsequent retaking.\n