N.Y. Correct. Law § 184

§ 184. Articles manufactured to be furnished to the state or\nsubdivisions thereof. 1. The commissioner is authorized and directed to\ncause to be manufactured or prepared by the inmates in the state\ncorrectional facilities, such articles as are needed and used therein,\nand also, such articles as are required by the state or political\nsubdivisions thereof, and in the buildings, offices and public\ninstitutions owned or managed and controlled by the state, including\narticles and materials to be used in the erection of the buildings, and\nincluding material for the construction, improvement or repair of\nhighways, streets and roads.\n 2. All such articles manufactured or prepared in the state\ncorrectional facilities, or by inmates, and not required for use\ntherein, shall be of the styles, patterns, designs and qualities fixed\nby the department of corrections and community supervision, except where\nthe same have been or may be fixed by the office of general services in\nthe executive department. Such articles may be furnished to the state,\nor to any political subdivision thereof, or for or to any public\ninstitution owned or managed and controlled by the state, or any\npolitical subdivision thereof, government of the United States or to any\nstate of the United States or subdivision thereof or to any public\ncorporation, authority, or eleemosynary association funded in whole or\nin part by any federal, state or local funds, at and for such prices as\nshall be fixed and determined as hereinafter provided, upon the\nrequisitions of the proper officials thereof. No article so manufactured\nor prepared shall be purchased from any other source, for the state or\npublic institutions of the state, or the political subdivisions thereof,\nor public benefit corporations, authorities or commissions, unless the\ncommissioner of corrections and community supervision shall certify that\nthe same can not be furnished upon such requisition, and no claim\ntherefor shall be audited or paid without such certificate.\n